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                    PubSub bookmarks
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                    » A practice for people to organize and share information in
                    a collaborative and decentralized manner.
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                    Folksonomy
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                    Folksonomy is a system of classification that is created by
                    individual people, rather than by professionals (who
                    sometimes refer themselves as experts) such as archivers or
                    librarians. It is a fashion for people to collaboratively
                    tag and categorize information, often using keywords or
                    labels.
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                    Characteristics
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                    Among the characteristics of folksonomy are: independency,
                    collaborativeness, and being dynamic;
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                    Tags are self-generated by individual people, not by a
                    centralized authority;
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                    Tags can be added by multiple people to the same item,
                    and thereby they create a collective understanding;
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                    Tags can be added, removed, and updated over time,
                    reflecting evolving usage, accuracy and interests;
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                    There is no single source of truth or control over the
                    tagging process.
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                    Benefits
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                    Because people can easily find relevant content by searching
                    for specific tags; and shared tagging promotes collective
                    understanding and knowledge creation; and people feel more
                    involved and empowered by contributing their own insights,
                    which consequently also fosters serendipitous discovery.
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                    The benefits of folksonomies spans from improved
                    discoverability of contents to enhanced collaboration and
                    increased engagement of people by contributing and
                    benefiting to the overhaul system.
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                    In addition, tagging in folksonomies generates an
                    extraordinary wealth of metadata which is associated with
                    each item.
                    By this rich metadata, which consists of self-generated
                    tags, provides additional and valuable information and
                    context that often enhance searchability, discovery, and
                    browsing capabilities.
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                    Impact
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                    It was written in Adam Mathes' recent paper on folksonomies that:
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                    “There is a fundamental difference in the activities of
                    browsing to find interesting content, as opposed to direct
                    searching to find relevant documents in a query. It is
                    similar to the difference between exploring a problem space
                    to formulate questions, as opposed to actually looking for
                    answers to specifically formulated questions. Information
                    seeking behavior varies based on context.”
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                    Conclusion
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                    By practicing and engaging in folksonomy systems, people
                    find many interesting resources that are related to their
                    special and specific needs, that they could not have found
                    using search engines. Blasta has some interesting advantages
                    over search engines, and one of them is being folksonomy
                    driven.
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                    The power of the people cannot be more evident than the
                    awesome resource that is Wikipedia, albeit is has been
                    gradually controlled by
                    <a href="https://www.fivefilters.org/2023/glenn-greenwald-on-wikipedia-bias/">
                    special interests</a>. Imagine what might happen if a search
                    engine (e.g. YaCy) can be engineered by people!
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                    Resources
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                            <a href="http://adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html">
                                Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata
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                            &#8203;&#8202;
                            (adammathes.com)
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                            <a href="http://www.sylloge.com/personal/2004/08/folksonomy-social-classification-great.html">
                                Folksonomy : social classification
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                            &#8203;&#8202;
                            (sylloge.com)
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                            <a href="https://www.lisedunetwork.com/folksonomy/">
                                What is Folksonomy?
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                            &#8203;&#8202;
                            (lisedunetwork.com)
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                    “I think the lack of hierarchy, synonym control and semantic
                    precision are precisely why it works. Free typing loose
                    associations is just a lot easier than making a decision
                    about the degree of match to a pre-defined category
                    (especially hierarchical ones).”
                    ― Stewart Butterfield
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