Organizing/Navigating Content

I did already some research on tagging (t d f) (not so much on folksonomy (t d f)) and have now 1 and a half year of experience with using a tagging platform behind firewalls. My conclusion for the time being: it is a new, innovative technique and procedure that needs to mature and be deployed carefully. If you succeed with implementing and leveraging it it is quite helpful for organizing content and sharing the process of appropriation: particularly within an intranet (t d f)s; I didn’t say knowledge-sharing

Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content: “In this way Flickr’s folksonomy addresses two of the most difficult problems with taxonomies. The information within folksonomies is organized and maintained by users, so very little work has to be done by designers after initially setting up the tagging system. This could be a boon to information architects who now spend too much of their time regularly re-organizing their taxonomy.

One of the most promising features of folksonomies is that there is no disconnect between the user’s words and the words on the site: the users words are the words on the site! Not only are users able to organize their stuff according to their own rules, but the information architects of the site can learn interesting things that a taxonomy may not have illuminated.”

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