The document discusses integrating folksonomies with traditional metadata. It defines folksonomy as personal free tagging done socially and explains that folksonomies provide value by allowing people to use their own vocabularies and add explicit meaning. While taxonomies provide structure and efficiency, folksonomies are emergent, inexpensive, and continually validated. The document explores combining taxonomies and folksonomies by validating folksonomy tags and identifying gaps to fill with the taxonomy.
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❖ Folksonomy is the result of personal free
tagging of pages and objects for one's own
retrieval
❖ The tagging is usually done in a social
environment (shared and open to others)
❖ The act of tagging is done by the person
consuming the information
Folksonomy: Definition
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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.
Folksonomy:Value
The value in this external tagging is derived
from people using their own vocabulary
and adding explicit meaning
People are not so much categorizing, as
providing a means to connect items
(placing hooks) to provide their meaning in
their own understanding.
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70% of Folksonomy tag
terms not in Taxonomy
J.Trant regarding Steve.museum
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Compensating
Taxonomy Folksonomy
+ Structure - Messy
+ Efficiency - Difficult Findability
+ Solid foundation - Slow to emerge
- Resource intensive + Relatively inexpensive
- Not emergent + Emergent by nature
- Difficult to validate + Continual validation
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Terms Around an Object
Taxonomy Folksonomy
- Ball
- Sphere
- Blue
- #A6437
- Ball (89)
- Circle (63)
- Blue (23)
- Orb (11)
- Sphere (6)
- Gradient (3)
- ToBuy (3)
- Darkblue (2)
- Round (2)
- … 26 more
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Distribution of Terms
Validate
taxonomy
or add to
taxonomy Interest
& watch
Value in
Synonyms &
Unique views
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❖ Their OWN use/value first
❖ Add Perspective/Context
❖ Missing metadata
❖ EmergentVocabulary
❖ Personal descriptors
❖ Refindability
❖ Aggregation of information
❖ Task-based aggregation
❖ State Interest
❖ Sociality
Reasons People Tag
30. Ancillary Metadata
• Date Added (last modified)
• What Service
• Corpus of tags (co-occurrence)
• Who else tagged
• Role: Publisher / Authority / End user
38. Tools Interface /
Ease of Use
Enterprise Social Tool:
Components for Success Capabilities
39. Tools Interface /
Ease of Use
Sociality
Capabilities
Intelligence &
Business Needs
Enterprise Social Tool:
Components for Success
40. Tools Interface /
Ease of Use
Encouraging
Use
Sociality
Capabilities
Expand Use &
Increase ROI
Social Comfort
Intelligence &
Business Needs
Enterprise Social Tool:
Components for Success