Folksonomies

In recent times, a huge number of websites has begun to generate extraordinary amounts of new content through web logs, Wikis and other social tools. The websites supporting this type of content generating is gaining hype and are emerging rapidly on internet. In this content generation, increasing amount of valuable content is generated not by trained writers and experts, but by non-trained and non-expert information professionals. Not only is original content being generated, community efforts are also generating fast amounts of content-describing data (meta data). While this was formerly only the task of trained professionals making use of well specified taxonomies, now large numbers of non-professionals are annotating with what is called “folksonomies”. In this essay we try to clarify what folksonomies bring to information architecture community and what it entails in collaborative work environments. The piece of content that describes other con…