2. WHAT ARE FOLKSONOMIES??
English term „folksonomies“ was created in 2004 by informatical
architect Thomas Vander Wal
Explanation- folk (people)
taxonomy (from Greece word „taxis-
„ arrangement“ and „nomy“-„method“)
It is a method, which presenting organization of information to tags. Tags
are assigning by users of social networks
TAG- Term which determine the category, that users assigning to the
concrete sources
Allowing categorization lot of different sources like blogs, video, web
page,pictures but also rss
They creating a connected structures of conception maps, which are
representing terms in people minds
3. THE MAIN DIVISION OF FOLKSONOMIES
Author create an object and
make this object accessible
to other users. At the same
time author indexing a
content by one keyword,
which is the most suitable for
his object.
Source- Categorization and Klasification in e-space, Irena Lányiová
4. THE MAIN DIVISION OF FOLKSONOMIES
Author create an object and make
this object accessible to other users.
Others taging this object by own
keywords and they are using the
keywords to search this object at the
same time.
Source- Categorization and Klasification in e-space, Irena Lányiová
5. TAG CLOUDS
Connecting folksonomies more users in concrete
community
Summation of incidence the same tags
Representation of tags- the most occurrence tags
are accentuated
The most popular is del.ico.us
6. EXAMPLES
Systems to creating collective bookmarks
8. PROBLEMS
Main problem- trustworthiness of sources
Wrong categorization into the tags
To broad determination of tag for source
synonymity
Results are organized chaotically and browsing
need a lot of time