Folksonomy and Dichotomy

by: W Crawford

Cites & Insights, Vol. 6, No. 4. (March 2006), pp. 1-3.

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Abstract

You’ve probably heard of folksonomy, either under that neologism or as tagging. Some of you doubtless help create folksonomies as users of flickr or del.icio.us or Yahoo! My Web 2.0 or Technorati or…the list seems endless. Tag: you’re it—and you’re building folksonomies. You may have heard that folksonomy will replace all traditional classification and taxonomy systems because it’s so much cheaper and so much more…well, fun…than cataloging and classification. At least that’s what some people seem to be saying. “Some people” may or may not be Clay Shirky. He’s probably the most prominent name in the “Folkso-nomy über alles” camp,” but his statements on the subject vary a lot in the extent to which he sees folk-sonomy as a universal solution and wholesale re-placement for traditional classification schemes.

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