PUBLIC MARKS with tags tags & folksonomies

"Why tag clouds are absolutely the wrong approach to helping people find content."

'Tagging' helps unclutter data

Spinto dal successo di Flickr e soci ecco il fenomeno che sta riscrivendo la classificazione dei contenuti in rete. Ed è a misura e immagine degli utenti

Al motto di "enlarge your bookmarks" ecco una variazione di de.licio.us che fonde il social bookmarking con il mondo dei blog e offre alcune funzionalità interessanti.

a blog on tagging by Adam Mathes, Christian Crumlish, Clay Shirky, David Weinberger, Don Turnbull, Jon Lebkowsky, Mary Hodder, Timo Hannay

Un aperçu de quelques outils basés sur le concept de mot-clé (ou tag) disponibles à l'heure actuelle

Un aperçu de quelques outils basés sur le concept de mot-clé (ou tag) disponibles à l'heure actuelle

SKOS Core provides a model for expressing the basic structure and content of concept schemes.

Folksonomies—like controlled vocabularies—are here to stay, and I would like to focus on how we can make them work better.

The folksonomy is most often also social so that others that use the same vocabulary will be able to find the object as well. It is important to note that folksonomies work best when the tags used to describe objects are in the common vocabulary and not what a person perceives others will call it (the tool works like no other for personal information management of information on the web, but is also shared with the world to help others find the information).

"Folksonomies--like controlled vocabularies--are here to stay, and I would like to focus on how we can make them work better."

Good article on folksonomies and the present state/future possibilities of tagging

A must read scientific article.

A must read scientific article.

"Store, sort and share source code, with tag goodness" Excellent!!

Un article de Business Week sur les tags.

"Flickr est ce site qui permet à chaque personne de poster des photographies et d'ajouter des étiquettes à chacune des images. L'étiquetage ne possède aucune hiérarchie, il est complètement plat et donc souvent complètement inutile dans le cadre d'une recherche plus complexe et plus organisée."

xFolk is an open xhtml microformat that allows users to publish their own folksonomy classifications for aggregation by the services they choose.

xFolk is an open xhtml microformat that allows users to publish their own folksonomy classifications for aggregation by the services they choose.

Readers raised several useful issues with the first iteration of the microformat. This new iteration addresses those issues. Further comment is appreciated.

Readers raised several useful issues with the first iteration of the microformat. This new iteration addresses those issues. Further comment is appreciated.

xFolk is an open xhtml microformat that allows users to publish their own folksonomy classifications for aggregation by the services they choose.