1. Folksonomy Welcome While waiting for the show to start, try this... 1. Grab a marker pen and three post-it notes 2. Write a word on each post-it describing you 3. Stick the post-it notes visibly on yourself

2. Folksonomy Web 2.0 = Read / Write Web

3. Folksonomy Source: http://www.consumating.com

4. Folksonomy taxonomy Dewey Decimal System: Religion … 292 Classical (Greek & Roman) 293 Germanic religion 294 Religions of Indic origin 295 Zoroastrianism 296 Judaism 297 Islam & religions originating in it 298 Not assigned or no longer used 299 Other religions …Buddhism?Buddhism? Source: http://www.mattmcalister.com

5. Folksonomy taxonomy From Greek verb: tassein = "to classify” nomos = law, science, "economy" The science of classifying things Hierarchical tree-like structure Requires planning and expertise Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy

6. Folksonomy Source: http://www.librarything.com/tagcloud.php

7. Folksonomy Folksonomy how photo tagging works

8. Folksonomy Folksonomy public “gadget” photos

9. Folksonomy Folksonomy = folk + taxonomy Open, democratic form of organization Tags bridge structure and meaning Tags reflect the social fabric “It’s like 90% of a ‘proper’ taxonomy but 10 times simpler” (Butterfield, 2004) Folksonomy building a semantic web

10. Folksonomy Opening up your class using web 2.0 ideology Blog: Bookmarks: Images: Wiki: Podcasting: Reading: Social Network:

11. Folksonomy Alex Halavais’ Class COM515 Shared Bookmarks – Powered by Del.icio.us Source: http://del.icio.us/tag/com515

12. Folksonomy Text Based on Dion’s RSS illustration at http://www.flickr.com/photos/dionh/62142614/ RSS the “plumbing” of our living web

13. Folksonomy What are the pros & cons ? What if we don’t use the same vocabulary? Can folksonomy be abused? Would you use it? Folksonomy