About this trail:
With the introduction of tagging in Web 2.0 tools I became excited about the infinite possibilities for classifying bits of information. I thought: "a dream come true." But now I am concerned by the ever expanding uniqueness of my terms and am drawn to learn more about taqxonomy, ontology, and folksonomies. I must confess, that as a folklorist, I consider folksonomy to be categories that are grounded in communities of members who understand the ways of the group. I wonder what the bloggers are saying. I wonder how they are thinking about folkonomies.
Trail link: http://trailfire.com/mbrownstone/trails/36514
Summary: http://trailfire.com/mbrownstone/trailview/36514
Summary: http://trailfire.com/mbrownstone/trailview/36514
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With the introduction of tagging in Web 2.0 tools I became excited about the infinite possibilities for classifying bits of information. I thought: "a dream come true." But now I am concerned by the ever expanding uniqueness of my terms and am drawn to learn more about taqxonomy, ontology, and folksonomies. I must confess, that as a folklorist, I consider folksonomy to be categories that are grounded in communities of members who understand the ways of the group. I wonder what the bloggers are saying. I wonder how they are thinking about folkonomies.
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Total digression here .... How serendipitous. Beth keeps popping back into my life when I least expect it. On my bloghop today with the NYCWP I was only 2 clicks away from her. I must get back to read this blog. (btw-Hi Beth...I'm sure you are in trailfire and will see this marker :-) Folksonomy versus collabulary seems to get to the root of the issue I begin with...the folk community, not the infinitely expanding universe of naming.
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Now there's probably be a bunch of "to read later" notes because we've just been given the 5-minutes to closing warning.
