HYPERGURU

The term “folksonomy” was coined by Thomas VanderWal and it’s used to describe the tagging and classification systems used by many social networking applications (Flickr, 43 Things, Del.icio.us, etc.) wherein individual users tag data or content (Web pages, photos, links, lists, etc.) however they choose and the system aggregates those tags and (usually) groups them into a weighted list of some kind.

Update (02/03/05): Folksonomy defined. “A Folksonomy is a collection of metadata created by users.”

Folksonomy

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