Project for New New Media

1. FOLKOSONOMIES
Bc. Ľubomír Poklemba
Linköpings Universitet
2008/2009

2. WHAT ARE FOLKSONOMIES??
 English term „folksonomies“ was created in 2004 by informatical
architect Thomas Vander Wal
 Explanation- folk (people)
taxonomy (from Greece word „taxis-
„ arrangement“ and „nomy“-„method“)
 It is a method, which presenting organization of information to tags. Tags
are assigning by users of social networks
 TAG- Term which determine the category, that users assigning to the
concrete sources
 Allowing categorization lot of different sources like blogs, video, web
page,pictures but also rss
 They creating a connected structures of conception maps, which are
representing terms in people minds

3. THE MAIN DIVISION OF FOLKSONOMIES
 Author create an object and
make this object accessible
to other users. At the same
time author indexing a
content by one keyword,
which is the most suitable for
his object.
Source- Categorization and Klasification in e-space, Irena Lányiová

4. THE MAIN DIVISION OF FOLKSONOMIES
Author create an object and make
this object accessible to other users.
Others taging this object by own
keywords and they are using the
keywords to search this object at the
same time.
Source- Categorization and Klasification in e-space, Irena Lányiová

5. TAG CLOUDS
 Connecting folksonomies more users in concrete
community
 Summation of incidence the same tags
 Representation of tags- the most occurrence tags
are accentuated
 The most popular is del.ico.us

6. EXAMPLES
 Systems to creating collective bookmarks

7. EXAMPLES
SYSTEMS TO ORGANIZATION AND TRACKING A SOURCES
ON THE INTERNET

8. PROBLEMS
 Main problem- trustworthiness of sources
 Wrong categorization into the tags
 To broad determination of tag for source
 synonymity
 Results are organized chaotically and browsing
need a lot of time