People have been trying to classify and organize information for thousands of years. There are many examples of cataloged items in ancient repositories, including items in the Library of Alexandria in Egypt. Taxonomy arose as an attempt to organize inform
"The future co-existence of controlled vocabularies and collaborative tagging is predicted, with each appropriate for use within distinct information contexts: formal and informal."
While professionally created metadata are often considered of high quality, it is costly in terms of time and effort to produce. User created metadata is a third approach, and this paper focuses on grassroots community classification of digital assets.
Ein englischer Text von Adam Mathes mit den Themen:The Creation of Metadata, Tagging Content in Del.icio.us and Flickr, From Tags to Folksonomy, Why Folksonomies Work and Areas For Further Research
A. Mathes. Class report, Computer Mediated Communication - LIS590CMC Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois Urbana-?Champaign, (January 2004)
A. Mathes. Computer Mediated Communication, LIS590CMC (Doctoral Seminar), Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, December, (2004)