The document discusses how new technologies have changed the cost and accessibility of knowledge. It argues that social software, open access publishing, and folksonomies have minimized production costs and removed barriers to information, making knowledge more open and collaborative. Specifically, it notes that social software allows for many-to-many communication and self-organization of groups, open access removes price and permission barriers, and folksonomies create collaborative tagging systems that increase accessibility of information.
1. Cutting the trees of knowledge: social software, information architecture & their epistemic consequences M Schiltz, F Truyen & H Coppens
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8. taxonomy noun chiefly Biology 1 the branch of science concerned with classification. 2 a scheme of classification. (AskOxford.com)
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10. tag clouds refer to a visual depiction of user-generated tags, as a way to visualize tags in a folksonomy
11. what is “knowledge”? knowledge noun 1 information and skills acquired through experience or education. 2 the sum of what is known. 3 awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation: he denied all knowledge of the incident. (AskOxford.com)
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13. in summary … Printing Press Internet Open Access Social Software Minimised Publishing costs New, improved & more accessible kind of knowledge Folksonomies
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