Folksonomy Welcome While waiting for the show to start, try this Grab a marker pen and three post-it notes 2. Write a word on each post-it describing you 3. Stick the post-it notes visibly on yourself

Folksonomy Web 2.0 = Read / Write Web

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Folksonomy taxonomy Dewey Decimal System: Religion … 292 Classical (Greek & Roman) 293 Germanic religion 294 Religions of Indic origin 295 Zoroastrianism 296 Judaism 297 Islam & religions originating in it 298 Not assigned or no longer used 299 Other religions …Buddhism?Buddhism? Source:

Folksonomy taxonomy From Greek verb: tassein = "to classify” nomos = law, science, "economy" The science of classifying things Hierarchical tree-like structure Requires planning and expertise Source:

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Folksonomy Folksonomy how photo tagging works

Folksonomy Folksonomy public “gadget” photos

Folksonomy Folksonomy = folk + taxonomy Open, democratic form of organization Tags bridge structure and meaning Tags reflect the social fabric “It’s like 90% of a ‘proper’ taxonomy but 10 times simpler” (Butterfield, 2004) Folksonomy building a semantic web

Folksonomy Opening up your class using web 2.0 ideology Blog: Bookmarks: Images: Wiki: Podcasting: Reading: Social Network:

Folksonomy Alex Halavais’ Class COM515 Shared Bookmarks – Powered by Del.icio.us Source:

Folksonomy Text Based on Dion’s RSS illustration at RSS the “plumbing” of our living web

Folksonomy What are the pros & cons ? What if we don’t use the same vocabulary? Can folksonomy be abused? Would you use it? Folksonomy