Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Internet The spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categories; the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content; a user-generated taxonomy.
Etymologies
- Blend of folk and taxonomy (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Whether "folksonomy" is Greek to you or you've been tagging your bookmarks in del.icio.us since back in the day, this session will deliver insight into the broad concepts involved with social classification as well as examining nuts-and-bolts practical applications.”
“In technical terms a folksonomy is just a collection of tag assignments:”
“They rely heavily on what's called folksonomy, or popular classification, instead of taxonomy, or centralized/official classification.”
“A folksonomy is a simple way for people to reference things so that they can find those things later within a given context.”
“Steve Rubel notes that there's a debate at the online encyclopedia Wikipedia about a new listing for the word folksonomy, which it defines as "a neologism for a practice ... iPod”
“Keywords - The degenerate case of a folksonomy is a simply flat list of strings.”
“Read on for immediate simulated life examples, instructions for deployment, and the initial tag folksonomy for the Haiti disaster.”
“-- In addition to a strict, top-down taxonomy, you can also implement a user-driven "folksonomy," letting people tag documents with terms that make sense to them.”
“Excerpt: What del. icio.us's users were creating -- without necessarily knowing they were doing so -- was what technology blogger Thomas Vander Wal has dubbed a "folksonomy," a flexible system of organization that emerges organically from the choices users make.”
“Build your own "folksonomy" for your email as you read your mail.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘folksonomy’.
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longer new words in Scrabble
these were collected recently
mostly from Chambers and some
from Collins dictionaries.acathisia, acathisias, acentrics, aciclovir, aciclovirs, acidically, acinetobacter, acinetobacters, acrophobics, aculeates, advertizings, aerodigestive and 1320 more...
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Neologisms
'New' words.
neurogami, sexting, plussies, plussy, churnalism, hecka, greenwashing, greenwash, Blogistan, diactrize, subsume, cachebusting and 27 more...
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known words
words wot i already knew
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mager's Words
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erich13's list
My Tag Cloud
addon, admire, adobeair, advice, alist, android, api, app, apple, augmentedreality, author, badge and 179 more...
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There's a word for that?
temerity, tacit, froward, faineant, caterwaul, menagerie, ennui, sine qua non, lissom, multifarious, laconic, katzenjammer and 240 more...
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sillygoose's Words
nefarious, waffle, dilettante, love, obstreperous, suggestible, fodder, plucky, trajectory, eclectic, juggernaut, demure and 115 more...
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Xuer's Words
real, xuer, china, shanghai, internet, readwrite, craigslist, google, delicious, flickr, douban, 37signals and 109 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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words web 2.0 taught me
folksonomy, crowdsourcing, meh, social bookmarking, social networking, wikipediholic, meta
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vorpal's Words
parabiosis, penumbra, defenestrate, portmanteau, sturm und drang, perspicacious, quixotic, copacetic, obfuscate, inveigle, shadenfreude, cloister and 349 more...
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stpeter's Words
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Cool words
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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judith's word inbox
collocated, carnaval, articulate, reticulated, cilia, sardonic, aesthetics, tenacity, tensile, jubilant, ebullient, ethereal and 206 more...
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persnickety parlance
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for folksonomy.
Richie Topgaard Great word, and sounds like a song by Prince. But it's not. Nov 8, 2009
sonofgroucho There is something compulsive about tagging! Oct 6, 2007
slumry I love the concept--I love to consider how things can be classified--I once thought of being an indexer, but I am afraid it would have driven me over the edge. Jun 13, 2007