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In recent times, an unprecedented amount of Web content has begun to be generated through web logs, wikis and other social tools thanks to lower technology and cost barriers. A new host of content creators is emerging, often individuals with the will to participate in discussions and share their ideas with like-minded people. This is to say that this increasing amount of varied, valuable content is generated by non-trained, non-expert information professionals: they are at the same time users and producers of information.

Boris, suite à de nombreuses discussions que nous avons eues récemment sur les système de fichiers sémantique (en anglais, je dirais plutôtSemantic Desktop ou Semantic filesystem ou encore RDF filesystem) ainsi que sur la gestion des catalogues de photographies ou encore de musique en MP3, a publié une entrée intitulée Tags, ontologies, community and feedback. Revenons un peu plus en détails sur certaines des suggestions faites.

Boris, suite à de nombreuses discussions que nous avons eues récemment sur les système de fichiers sémantique (en anglais, je dirais plutôtSemantic Desktop ou Semantic filesystem ou encore RDF filesystem) ainsi que sur la gestion des catalogues de photographies ou encore de musique en MP3, a publié une entrée intitulée Tags, ontologies, community and feedback. Revenons un peu plus en détails sur certaines des suggestions faites.

On peut lire beaucoup de choses contradictoires sur les carnets Web qui touchent aux tags (étiquettes), aux taxonomies, au Web sémantique. Dépendant du camp dans lequel on se trouve, les opinions diffèrent. Une mythologie se développent petit à petit des deux côtés.

an article about various solutions for tags-system (flat-hierarchy) database implementation

A persistent theme in the interest in folksonomy, and tagging in particular, is the threat of majority control. When the meaning of a link is determined by the masses, it can be inimical to anyone with a marginal point of view, and, the larger the pool the majority is pulled from, the greater the pressures towards lowest common denominator choices.

So since playing with Flickr and working on a little fun project at work on (cough) folksonomies with Mr Webb, I've become obsessed with tags and the ways in which they can be used to build better navigational interfaces. Currently I'm interested in how we might use tags for better folder-less bookmark management in web browsers.

So since playing with Flickr and working on a little fun project at work on (cough) folksonomies with Mr Webb, I've become obsessed with tags and the ways in which they can be used to build better navigational interfaces. Currently I'm interested in how we might use tags for better folder-less bookmark management in web browsers.

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