Meanings
comparative more folksonomic · superlative most folksonomic
- not comparableusuallyOf or pertaining to folksonomy.
The author uses information scent and foraging theory as a context to discuss how folksonomy is constructed through interactions among users, a folksonomic system, and a given domain that consists of a group of users who share the same interest or goals.
2011, Heejin Park, “A Conceptual Framework to Study Folksonomic Interaction”, in Knowledge Organization, volume 38, number 6, pages 515–5291 more example
Now folksonomies are moving into new realms. At the Art Museum Community Cataloging Project, officials from the Guggenheim, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and a half-dozen other establishments are taking a folksonomic approach to their online collections by allowing patrons to supplement the specialized lexicon of curators. And this fall, Amazon.com introduced a system that allows readers to classify books.
2005 December 11, Daniel H. Pink, “Folksonomy”, in New York Times, section 6, page 69
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