Articles and resources about folksonomies, which are a user-generated classification associating keywords with content. They can also be described as a means of using keywords to tag web pages, web sites or creating social bookmarks.
(This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). by Cameron Marlow, Mor Naaman, danah boyd, Marc Davis. Yahoo! Research Berkeley and UC Berkeley School of Information. Semanticmetadata.net. "Abstract: In recent years, tagging systems have become increasingly popular. These systems enable users to add keywords (i.e., 'tags') to Internet resources (e.g., web pages, images, videos) without relying on a controlled vocabulary. Tagging systems have the potential to improve search, spam detection, reputation systems, and personal organization while introducing new modalities of social communication and opportunities for data mining. This potential is largely due to the social structure that underlies many of the current systems..."
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