Definition of folksonomy in English:
folksonomy
nounfəʊkˈsɒnəmiˌfōkˈsänəmē
A user-generated system of classifying and organizing online content into different categories by the use of metadata such as electronic tags.
Example sentencesExamples
- When I found out it was folksonomy I was a little disappointed, to be honest.
- Here's a deadly serious application for folksonomy: stitch together the historic record of the July 7th bombings.
- The impressionist's take on the folksonomy discussion between them is the best text for time-pressured people to read today.
- Because of the word folksonomy, people assume it is for categorization.
- And yet I keep having this feeling that folksonomy, and particularly amateur tagging, is profound in a way that the ‘no cheap metadata’ dictum doesn't cover.
- Weinberger calls this grass-roots approach to organization folksonomy and predicts that it will diminish the role of experts.
- There's no doubt about it: folksonomy is hot right now.
- Clever use of Flickr clusters can bring order to the random folksonomy of tagging.
Origin
Early 21st century: blend of folks (see folk) and taxonomy.