Comments on: Folksonomy and google bombs

By: Bart VH

Bart VH — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 04:57:00 +0000

I found this article very interesting and have been struggling (I admit) with the definition(s) of it. Could we than say/state that a the wiki-way-of-organising-content is a tag-based system. I.e. All urls are tags?

By: Laurent

Laurent — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:47:00 +0000

Very nice to talk about folksonomy and tag based classification.

But floksonomy isn’t antagonist to taxonomy and thesaurus based classification. Folksonomy is just the flat repository of tags where thesaurus is an organisation of them by parent/children, sibbling, preferred expression, homonyms, errors , acronyms etc…

Folksonomy is just the first step…

By: Pascal Van Hecke

Pascal Van Hecke — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:38:00 +0000

I tend to use the terms “categories”, “categorisation” and “classification” when I make them up beforehand (before creating content) as if it were boxes to put stuff in afterwards.
And “labels”, “tags”, “keywords” when I “invent” them after creating the content, as if I were writing paper labels and sticking it to objects.
(see http://pascal.vanhecke.info/wp-content/upload_files/20051007_Linklogs/Linklogs_javascript.html , “Categories versus tags in blogging and linklogging”)

Do you use the term category here intuitively, or according to some authoritative definition?