Collaborative tagging

Collaborative tagging (also known as folksonomy, social classification, social indexing and other names) is the practice and method of collaborative creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. In contrast to traditional subject indexing, metadata is not only generated by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content. Usually, freely chosen keyword are used instead of a controlled vocabulary. Collaborative tagging ... more

Collaborative tagging (also known as folksonomy, social classification, social indexing and other names) is the practice and method of collaborative creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. In contrast to traditional subject indexing, metadata is not only generated by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content. Usually, freely chosen keyword are used instead of a controlled vocabulary. Collaborative tagging became popular on the web in 2004 with social software applications such as social bookmarking and annotation of photographs. Websites that support tagging and the principle of folksonomy are referred to in the context of Web 2.0 because participation is very easy and new tagging data is used in new ways to find information. Tag cloud are frequently used to visualize the most used tags of a folksonomy. Typically, folksonomies are Internet-based, although they are also used in other contexts. Folksonomic tagging is intended to make a body of... less