Dan Keldsen Director, Market Intelligence at aiim.org dan (dot) keldsen (at) aiim (dot) org www.linkedin.com/in/dankeldsen Folksonomies Chaotic Mess? Controlled Vocabulary Replacement? Temporary Blip? Note: This presentation was first created in 2005, as an alternative point of view to training sessions I did with Delphi Group in our Proving Ground on Taxonomy and Information Architecture. In the first 18 months or so of introducing this 30-45 minute section of our 2.5 days of content, I had many hostile or at the least, skeptical responses to this. Even the most diehard of “traditional” librarians in the crowd however, started to turn a corner in late 2006, and this is much more commonplace from a library services standpoint. Now, if we can only get business MANAGERS to understand why social bookmarking or tagging services might add value in their organizations... a nut that may be harder to crack. 1 Wednesday, February 27, 2008
This is a presentation I'd initially put together back in 2005, and for some reason, never shared publicly (for no good reason). It's not the most beautiful of presentations, but my purposes in presenting this in 2005 was to introduce a rising meme around folksonomy, in the midst of intense 2-2.5 day taxonomy training I was doing at the time. There's much more awareness now than then, but it's still relatively early days. Happy to discuss in far more detail.
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Dan KeldsenDirector, Market Intelligence at aiim.orgdan (dot) keldsen (at) aiim (dot) orgwww.linkedin.com/in/dankeldsen
Note:This presentation was first created in 2005, as an alternative point of view to training sessions I did with Delphi Group in our Proving Ground on Taxonomy and Information Architecture.
In the first 18 months or so of introducing this 30-45 minute section of our 2.5 days of content, I had many hostile or at the least, skeptical responses to this.
Even the most diehard of “traditional” librarians in the crowd however, started to turn a corner in late 2006, and this is much more commonplace from a library services standpoint.
Now, if we can only get business MANAGERS to understand why social bookmarking or tagging services might add value in their organizations... a nut that may be harder to crack.
Dan KeldsenDirector, Market Intelligence at aiim.orgdan (dot) keldsen (at) aiim (dot) orgwww.linkedin.com/in/dankeldsen
What are Folksonomies?
•Relatively recently coined term (2003+), marrying the idea of having a collected vocabulary, but personalized, and emerging from the users rather than by “experts”
•Taken to the extreme, there are some people who believe Folksonomies completely obliterate the need/desire for any controlled vocabulary efforts
➡ Extremes are for extremists. Let’s not go crazy here...