Finding the Stuff Again

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social bookmarking

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collaboration

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distributed teamwork

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personal research wrangling

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This means you have to tag.

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Tags are easy.

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Simple

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Flexible

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Can be aggregated

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Taxonomy v

Folksonomy

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taxonomy (n): 1. the practice and science of classification.

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folksonomy (n): 1. bottom-up classification systems.

2. the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.

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Why folksonomies?

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Evolving nomenclatures

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Dynamic information

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Space for multiple viewpoints

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Caveat: messy.

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Simplify through:

• no caps

• no punctuation

• basic terms

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4 tag types

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Descriptive

Self-reference

Ownership / Source

Resource

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