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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I totally agree that there is no need to choose between both.
ReplyDeleteIt 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.
ReplyDeleteI haven't found any such monetoring tools yet. Are they out there?