1. What Is Web 2.0
DRUSILLA LARTEY

2. What Is Web 2.0
 The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a
conference brainstorming session between
O'Reilly and Media Live International.
 Dale Dougherty and O'Reilly noted that the
web was more important than ever, with
exciting new applications and sites popping
up with surprising regularity
 The dot-com collapse seemed to have
marked some kind of turning point for the
web, which then called to action "Web 2.0"

3. What Is Web 2.0
This table is an attempt to clarify just what is meant by Web
2.0.
An initial brainstorming, which tried to formulate sense of
Web 2.0 by example:

4.  Like many important concepts, Web 2.0
doesn't have a hard boundary, but a
gravitational core. You can visualize Web
2.0 as a set of principles and practices
that tie together a veritable solar system
of sites that demonstrate some or all of
those principles, at a varying distance
from that core.

5. The Web As Platform

6. Folksonomy
 The result of personal free tagging of information
and objects (anything with a URL) for one's own
retrieval. The tagging is done in a social
environment (usually shared and open to
others).
 The value in this external tagging is derived from
people using their own vocabulary and adding
explicit meaning, which may come from inferred
understanding of the information/object. People
are not so much categorizing, as providing a
means to connect items (placing hooks) to
provide their meaning in their own
understanding.

8. There are several different ways that folksonomies can
serve a website.
One common way is to organize a tag cloud of all the
major links to your site - similar to a sitemap.
Another way is to set up the folksonomy to reflect
documents and files shared by site visitors or
members, linking to the particular documents
indicated by the word or phrase in the emerging tag
cloud.
Another use that is becoming quite popular is to reflect
the contents of a cluster of text, or even a set of
data.
This has all kinds of promise for feedback and even
qualitative research analysis.

9. Folksonomy research is conducted in a wide variety of
disciplines and fields of study, including:
 Classification, taxonomy, and thesaurus
 construction
 Computer science
 Human computer interaction
 Information architecture
 Information behaviour
 Library & Information science
 Ontologies
 Semantic web
 Semiotics