Folksonomy
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 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. Internet, uncountable
- 2 A user-generated taxonomy. Internet, countable
"We imagined a microlibrary which would be a well organized digital collection of resources, focused specifically on our project, and employing both traditional library cataloging and organization, and the folksonomy made possible by user-generated tagging."
Example
More examples"We imagined a microlibrary which would be a well organized digital collection of resources, focused specifically on our project, and employing both traditional library cataloging and organization, and the folksonomy made possible by user-generated tagging."
Etymology
Blend of folk + (tax)onomy, with the S extracted from the double consonant X.
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