Folksonomies in the Enterprise

Sarah Hayman has published a very strong and pragmatic paper on a combined folksonomy-controlled vocabulary approach which promises rich results for the application of tagging and exploitation of folksonomies in the enterprise.

It actually reads like a composite of two papers – the first half reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of social tagging, and describing a proposal for a combined folksonomy-taxonomy project, and the second half giving a well referenced discussion of the application of social tagging in the enterprise.

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Posted by Patrick Lambe on 05/07/07 at 04: 17 PM | Categories: Taxonomy | Permalink

2 Comments so far

Tobias Kowatsch

Have a look at http://iNeedSomebody2tag.com/welcome/en.  There is a web experiment regarding to folksonomies and collaborative tagging systems.

Maybe it is of interest for you.

Regards,
Tobias Kowatsch

Posted on July 10, 2007 at 11:28 PM | Comment permalink

Patrick Lambe

Thanks Tobias… I have taken the experiment, don’t forget to drop by and let us know the results.

Posted on July 11, 2007 at 09:37 AM | Comment permalink

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