Folksonomies And Complex Works

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

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

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

Folksonomies And Complex Works

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