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Folksonomies
November 2, 2009, 4:30 am
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Folksonomies became popular on the Web around 2004 as part of as social bookmarking and photograph annotation. Tagging, which is characteristic of Web 2.0 services, allows users to collectively classify and find information. Some websites include tag clouds as a way to visualize tags in a folksonomy. Folksonomies  have been developed to characterize how knowledge structures could arise and be useful to other users, even when there is a lack of top-down mediation


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