PUBLIC MARKS with tags folksonomy & taxonomy

This is a stunningly fresh and appealing approach to physical tagging, folksonomy or maps of relatedness. Typographic Links is a collectable hand-sewn publication, which maps interesting links and connections through the world of typography. The aim was to create a book and accompanying poster that took a light-hearted look at typographic practice. Thread is used to create three-dimensional hyperlinks that guide the reader through the pages of the book.

Tagging is a Ning app designed to solve the problem of synonyms in folksonomy. In a strict taxonomy we have a certain number of (usually mutually-exclusive) categories and subcategories.

tool per integrare una tagcloud nelle proprie pagine usando fedds RSS

Articolo di Emanuele Quintarelli sulla folksonomy

Articolo di Mucignat su folksonomy e taxonomy

Folksonomy比較認為對於知識理解的分類排列，是社會性的，與社群有關的，因此從專門的社群來發展分類也許是一種可行的嘗試，The Art Museum Community Cataloging Project 似乎就是一種這樣的計劃；這種以Folksonomy為基礎的資訊組織工作，與以往專業主題網路目錄(Information Gateway)的不同，應該是值得圖書資訊學界注意的。

In an attempt to summarize the relationship among various metadata formats and how they relate to building Internet systems I wrote a glossary. I then ordered and tied the terms together with a bit of narrative to explain the relationships among the terms

Fantastic, concise, explanation of tagging.

Where categories are managed by specialists in order to achieve the best classification, tags are users rough approximation of classification for a practical use. Here is a small proposal to improve flat hierarchy efficiency by patching it with some bits of categorization, while keeping the tags theirselves simple and natural...

a blog on tagging

This paper examines user-‍generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification.

as seen on Hotlinks ;)

an experimental forum (bulletin board) using a flat hierarchy (tags)