Sic Willie Has His Own Word?

“FOLKSONOMY” IS FOR REAL, PEOPLE

FITSNews – April 10, 2007 – Believe it or not, Folksonomy is a real word. Yeah, we wish it wasn’t either, because Sic Willie literally won’t shut up about it. Anyway, here’s the definition:

A folksonomy is a user generated taxonomy used to categorize and retrieve Web pages, photographs, Web links and other web content using open ended labels called tags. Typically, folksonomies are Internet-based, but their use may occur in other contexts as well. The process of folksonomic tagging is intended to make a body of information increasingly easy to search, discover, and navigate over time. A well-developed folksonomy is ideally accessible as a shared vocabulary that is both originated by, and familiar to, its primary users.

Of course “folksonomic tagging” was the only part of that whole speel Sic Willie heard. Well, in all fairness he probably heard the words “body” and “easy,” too.

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