What is folk?
Unlike Taxonomies , which can roughly be translated as "Classification Management" is a folksonomy classification scheme, which uses the crowd rather than experts to analyze content. The idea of folk has been closely associated with a brand that has been used in online circles since at least 2005.
The word folksonomy is a combination of people, which means "people" and -esomes , which means "management". It can literally be considered to be "managing people" and has nothing to do with the classification-Tero comes from the prefix tax--but the meaning is usually easy intuit from context. It is also a relatively new word, so it usually comes up with a definition when it is stated in the text. Del.ic.Ious Lets you mark any website you visit with the appropriate words to describe its content. Anyone can view a website corresponding to a specific brand or display that indicates a given page it has received. This marking concept is synonymous with metadataAnd the phrase and which has been discussed for decades, but never really caught up until the arrival of del.ic.Ious.
Technorati Marking services allows users to do the same with blog posts. Because they are supplied by a poster rather than impartial visitors, technorati brands do not always reflect the content of the contribution, but 99.9% of the time, yes. Tags Technorati are very popular and today used a substantial part of all bloggers. Frequency graphs Let's look into mass consciousness - sometimes called Zeitgeist - for example, we saw a huge increase in the "Katrina" brand after Hurruicane of the same name.
The visual representation of folk is tagcloud - the sequence of words of different sizes that represent popular brands by showing them in a larger type of font. TagClouds can be limited in different ways: for example, anyone who marks will accumulate personal tagcloudthat reflects how often they use the brand. The community can create a tagcloud describing its interests by merging personal brands of its members. The tips of the highest level are created by websites like del.ic.Ious when they compile tagClouds showing their favorite brands in a given period of time like the previous week, at first glance.
Wisegeek founder Denis Grosz came up with a variant on the idea of tagging entitled Nesstags when he suggested a scheme how to add numbers to marks to describe how intense or prototype example of the brand is a thing. For example, we could mark photos of objects based on how much "purple" they contain. A very purple thing can be marked "purple9", while something just slightly purple would be "purple". This could lead to a much more sophisticated folk.
Because folk labeling and concepts are in style, they are often used in marketing to create hype and should be accepted with a grain of salt. Term folksonOmy was originally created by information architect Thomas Vander Wal.