As I sat at my computer feeling satisfied that I had managed to add my assignment post before tomorrows deadline, I decided to spend some time playing Mahjjong. As I began playing I realised that I not mentioned in my previous post anything about Folksonomies, so ladies and gentleman let me make amends......
Folksonomy is the term applied to the 'tagging' of the websites added to del.icio.us, the pictures added to Flickr and so on. We tag our additions for the same reason keywords are added to articles placed in databases like Medline, that is so that they can be anyone can search for them using a common word or phrase. So when you add say for example The Scout website to your Del.icio.us list you would probably add the tags of boys, pastimes, youth organisations etc. Whilst this is familiar to library folk where it differs is the fact that unlike when you catalogue your books to Library of Congress Classification and you look for the subject, the subset and then decide which class code to use from a very rigid set of subjects, tagging can be done by complete novices and you yourself decide the tag you want to add and it can be as varied as your imagination.
I think that I have now covered the subject but just in case I am definitely switching the computer off now!
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