With the introduction of SharePoint 2010 and the way that it supports free tagging (folksonomy) as well as a centrally managed controlled vocabulary (taxonomy) using the managed metadata column – the debate about taxonomy versus folksonomy will probably light up again. In my personal opinion – there is no need to choose between one of both. The way that SharePoint 2010 supports the notion of promoting free tags into a managed taxonomy demonstrates that a folksonomy can be used as a source to define a taxonomy as well.
Related links:
- Folksonomy versus Taxonomy
- Taxonomy driven folksonomy
- The holistic web – Taxonomy versus folksonomy
- Knowledge Management – Some thoughts on Folksonomy versus Taxonomy
- Ontology is overrated: Categories, Links and Tags
- About taxonomy, folksonomy and SharePoint
- Just enough taxonomy
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2 comments:
I totally agree that there is no need to choose between both.
It is however essential that coherence and ease-of-use are central to such a hybrid approach. Not sure how well SharePoint deals with this aspect.
E.g. Knowledge Plaza implements such a hybrid tagging mechanism (faceted tagging with both upfront dictionary constraints and downhill gardening tools)and it works like a charm.
Cheers,
Greg
http://www.knowledgeplaza.co.uk
I don't think you should choose but to use both, but there should be statistics where you could promote folksonomy terms to the taxonomy.
I haven't found any such monetoring tools yet. Are they out there?
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