1. Course : WEB ENGINEERING
Paper Code: ETCS-308
TOPIC: Folksonomies

2. TAGS
It is keyword or a term attached to a piece of information for the purpose of identification.
Tags seem to be effective in helping people to find and discover information.
Web is a collection of unstructured links and resources. Using tags can give people a sense of organization.

3. TAGS

4. TAXONOMY Earliest technology for organizing web content.
Only the admin/authorized person can control the content or tags.
Use of taxonomy is not possible in websites with user generated content.
Most of the websites nowadays allows user interaction so the disadvantages of taxonomies are overcome by folksonomies.

5. FOLKSONOMY
It is a process organizing or classifying online content by defining user defined tags.
Folksonomy = Folks + Taxonomy
Folks = Done by People
Taxonomy = Way of organizing content
The term was coined by Thomas Vander Wal.
It became popular onwards 2004 with the advent of social networking sites.

6. Visualizing Folksonomy

7. Advantages Cheap and easy way to classify web content.
Capable of adapting to user style.
Scalability - Easy to use.
Helps machine to retrieve best information on the web.
Reflects the user’s interests.

8. Disadvantages Polisemy, which means same tag with different meanings.
eg, Jaguar (animal , a car brand).
Synonyms , words with the same meaning
Eg mistake and error
Singular vs plural words.
Organization is done by users.

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