Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content (26 Apr 2005)

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Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content (26 Apr 2005)
One of the most promising features of folksonomies is that there is no disconnect between the user’s words and the words on the site: the users words are the words on the site! Not only are users able to organize their stuff according to their own rules, but the information architects of the site can learn interesting things that a taxonomy may not have illuminated.

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