No need to regret the question. :) I'm playing around with the idea of building the PG Canada site as both a document portal and a community portal. My idea is that it would be cool to allow users to have (*optional*) PG-CA "personas", with personal bookmarks, areas for discussing books, saved interface customization, saved searches, etc. On feature of a community site could be support for a "folksonomy", which is an informal, non-heirarchical, per-user set of classification keywords associated with books. These informal tags can be seen by all users, thus allowing semi-serendipitous browsing of the PG-CA stacks. Folksonomy classification would be in addition to any formal classification we do as part of the publication process. Folksonomy tags would be stored at the user level, not as part of the meta-information about the book. As an example, UserFoo might add the folksonomy tags "bugs" "black_flies" and "creepy_crawlies" to a book called "A Survey of Pond Life in Upper Canada". UserBar might add the tags "tadpoles" "mosquitoes". UserBas could search the folksonomy tags "black_flies" and "tadpoles" and get a list of books contain both of these folksonomy keywords. There's a (better) definition of Folksonomy (with some excellent links) on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy). Sites that use folksonomies include http://del.icio.us/, http://www.flickr.com/ and http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/. jen. On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:43:11 -0800 (PST), Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
Jen, I know I'll regret asking this...
but what is a "folksonomy"
(As mentioned in the wiki)
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