Tagging allows people to categorize information by applying keywords or tags, which taps into people's natural cognitive processes of categorization with little extra effort. While traditional taxonomy involves hierarchical classification systems defined by experts, folksonomy involves user-generated tags to categorize and retrieve information.

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15. “The beauty of tagging is that it taps into an
existing cognitive process without adding much
cognitive cost.”
RashmiSinha, Researcher and Consultant
(a cognitive analysis of tagging)
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16. • http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/guy/01guy.html
• http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/folksonomy
• www.Wikipedia.com- web 2.0
• www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-folksonomy.htm
• www.cbd.int/gti/taxonomy.shtml
• Www.vanderwal.net
• www.iskai.org/doc/folksonomies.html
• www.tandfonline.com
• www.steve.museum
• www.webology.org
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