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Folksonomies

Folksonomies. Group members: Amber Ayub Chapal Aneeka Masood Shaira Qasim. What we will discuss. What is folksonomy? Where its applied? Why do we use folksonomy? So what does it do? Example (cat) How they are helpful? Frequent tags identification Future Research Activity .

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Folksonomies

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  1. Folksonomies Group members: Amber Ayub Chapal Aneeka Masood Shaira Qasim

  2. What we will discuss • What is folksonomy? • Where its applied? • Why do we use folksonomy? • So what does it do? • Example (cat) • How they are helpful? • Frequent tags identification • Future Research • Activity 

  3. While folksonomy gives power to the people • Which means to collaboratively create tags, to annotate and categorize content. • So basically, folksonomy are: * freely chosen words * user generated, no restrictions

  4. What is Folksonomy? • This term was coined by Thomas Vander Wal in 2004. • It consisted of two words - folk - taxonomy = a classification in ordered categories (governed power)

  5. Where its applied today? • Almost every application today offers this facility, however some are well-known for this, such as: • flickr.com – photosharing can be done (explain) • Deli.cious – social bookmarking • Youtube – video sharing • Amazon.com – books can be tagged

  6. Why Folksonomy? • More and more information needs to be searched • Alternate methods have certain limitations • More information required, with least search • All information consists in different formats

  7. ..So what does it do? • It gives a meaning/metadata to our content • Generates communication about the content • Used to share knowledge concerning that content • Used to retrieve information whenever you go back

  8. How has Folksonomy been helpful? After the example done right now, what can we deduce about using this aid? • helps in giving meaning, as we know what we want • they associate to our information • searching becomes easier • they are rather easy to use and understand

  9. How are tags identified Cloud tag

  10. Future Research People use folksonomies • to organize information, • investigate ways of evaluating their usefulness, • develop methods for capturing structures developed through folksonomies, and • examine folksonomies as a way of understanding a community’s conceptual model of a subject. New research should examine the how users organize information in a purely digital way

  11. Conclusion • The folksonomy presents a new opportunity for users to participate in the creation of classification systems. • Of particular interest are its application to categorizing content in developing fields, and allowing the navigation of content sets by browsing. • The social aspects and implications of these community-created systems are also of great significance and deserve exploration.

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