Folksonomies PART I, Introduction, What are folksonomies??

Introduction

The main idea of this project is to show another possibility how to search for information on the internet. I met a lot people, which usually don´t have any idea about folkosonomies. This project is devoted to them. I create also power point presentation which can be used like support for learning people about folksonomies. Everyone knows Google, Yahoo …, but this searching working at absolutely different principles (results are created but machines).

In case of folksonomy searching, users received a results which were in generally created by other users (human beens) and I guess, that human been could 100 times better understand to needs of other human been than every machine or searching engine based on machines. I think, that folksonomies are now only at beginning of their truly possibilities.

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. Mainly we can say „Folksonomy (also known as collaboratively tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. Folksonomy describes the bottom-up classification systems that emerge from social tagging.“ quoted from Wikipedia. Allowing categorization lot of different sources like blogs, video, web page,pictures but also rss. They are creating a connected structures of conception maps, which are representing terms in people minds. They became popular arround 2004.