Definition of "folksonomy" []

• The spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categories; the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content; a user-generated taxonomy. (noun)

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• "Whether "folksonomy" is Greek to you or you've been tagging your bookmarks in del.icio.us since back in the day, this session will deliver insight into the broad concepts involved with social classification as well as examining nuts-and-bolts practical applications."
• "In technical terms a folksonomy is just a collection of tag assignments:"
• "They rely heavily on what's called folksonomy, or popular classification, instead of taxonomy, or centralized/official classification."