Folksonomies PART IV, Problems and possible solutions, Power point presentation

Problems and possible solutions..

Trustworthiness of sources

The main problem according to my point of view, is that folksonomies are created by people, so anyone can tag anything. The problem is that, even you don´t know almost anything about the topic, you can also assing the tag to the concrete object. Unfortunately it happened many times (slangs, shortcuts, specific words, synonymum, dialectal words,…).

My vision of possible solution

I see a solution of this problem in some kind of short test or quiz for users. For example if u are interested in home cinema topic, you will take a quiz on the beginning, around 10 minutes, and after that you will received a result in scale of stars. One you are looser and 10 you are specialist. After this quiz if you put som tag to the object, your stars will count to the final assessment of the tag. I think that can be way how to distinguish uninitiated people from experts and prevent the problems and this solution is simply and don´t take so much time, I hope so.

Synonymity, polysemy and duplicity

Some tags can have a problem with synonymity and polysemity. The big problem is also, that the connections between tags are in only one level organization and they are not specified. That contributing to bigger chaos and browsing take more time.

My vision of possible solution

For organization and better searching we can try to use not leveled taxonomies, The another and better solution in point of view is to use experts, to controll the folksonomies and also we can use engines, which will remove the duplicity from taxonomies.

Music video and licence

It is true, nothing can run without profit of big companies. Youtube maybe have to stop showing the music videos on their page, because the big music companies (Warner Music Group,..) want a fee from this videos. Proportional fee from advertising is not enough for them. There will be a lot of negotiations around this.

My vision of possible solution
If users of youtube has to pay for every music video, the number of users will fall rapidly. Maybe more commercials on the page, will be better than separately fee, I guess.

I think, these was the main big problems from area of folksnomies.

Conclusion

Of course there is some problems about relevant results, but most of the folskonomies system are now only in beta versions. How I said on the beginning, this project supposed to be only introduction to the Folksonomies. This will be used like one class topic in my homeuniversity for exchange students. Project including also a powerpoint presentation. The main idea was give clue, and important informations from that area, and it is up to students to search for more informations (included links, ...), and make opinion.