Folksonomies and Complex Works A Primer By Akshat Trivedi

Folksonomies Folk – The general user (enthusiast) Uses the power of crowds Use hundreds of enthusiasts instead of 2-3 experts Save money Easily adaptable and constantly up-to-date Nomies – Nomenclatures, tags, meta-data Contextual information addition Tagging data Abstract sources Non textual data

Folk – The general user (enthusiast)

Uses the power of crowds

Use hundreds of enthusiasts instead of 2-3 experts

Save money

Easily adaptable and constantly up-to-date

Nomies – Nomenclatures, tags, meta-data

Contextual information addition

Tagging data

Abstract sources

Non textual data

A Visual Explanation

Why we need this Amount of information is not getting any smaller People are taking more photos, videos, etc Scientific publications (journals and patent sources) are becoming more complex and difficult to locate via regular searches Experts are not always available (or willing) for categorizing scientific data Human generated / curated tags add reliability to databases / search engines Users categorize this information anyway

Amount of information is not getting any smaller

People are taking more photos, videos, etc

Scientific publications (journals and patent sources) are becoming more complex and difficult to locate via regular searches

Experts are not always available (or willing) for categorizing scientific data

Human generated / curated tags add reliability to databases / search engines

Users categorize this information anyway

Examples of Effective Folksonomies Go Pub Med ChemSpider Of course – Wikipedia , Wikipatents

Go Pub Med

ChemSpider

Of course – Wikipedia , Wikipatents