Horizon Report 2006: further reading: Communal Categorization
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Communal Categorization: The Folksonomy (David Sturtz, December 16, 2004): This white paper provides a general overview of folksonomy, including examples.
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Examples of Folksonomies in action
- Flickr
- Del.icio.us and Furl
- Google: PageRank functions as a folksonomy creator by relying on links for ranking
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Suggested Areas of Research
- How do people use folksonomies to organize info?
- How do people organize info in a purely digital way, dropping all physical world metaphors?
- How can their usefulness be evaluated?
- Examine quality of indexing; develop methods for measurement of precision and recall
- Develop methods of capturing structures created through folksonomies
- Examine emergent structures; starting with a blank slate
- Examine folksonomies as a way of understanding a community's conceptual models
- How are decisions about terms and concepts made?
- Do apparent models accurately reflect community?
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References
- Brin, S. & Page, L. (1998). The Anatomy of a Large-Scaled Hypertextual Web Search Engine. In Enslow, Jr., P.H. & Ellis, A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on World Wide Web, (pp. 107-117). Brisbane, Australia: Elsevier Science Publishers B. V.
- Bryant, Lee. (2004). Can Social Tagging Overcome Barriers to Content Classification? Headshift.
- Doctorow, C. (2001). Metacrap: Putting the Torch to Seven Straw-Men of the Meta- Utopia.
- Shirky, C. (2004). Folksonomy . Corante.
- Vander Wal, T. (2004). You Down with Folksonomy?
