This blog has some posts in portuguese that make sense to be written in portugese and not in English. My excuses to all my friends or readers who cannot read Portuguese, but nevertheless there is always very good translators in the web and I am sure you will not be dissappointed with my decison of making a Blog bilingual.

Wednesday, 28 March 2007

Folksonomy

This new buzzword is very related to my research work. In fact by definition, available on wiki, folksnonomys are used to categorize Web Pages and other web content using ended labels called tags. This simple semantic approach is an interesting solution for my structuring knowledge problem. Maybe to simple, but yet an interesting approach. Of course the folksonomy term may occur in other contexts as well, but the process of tagging is considered very useful for searching, discovering, and navigating over time. Moreover a well-developed folksonomy is ideally accessible as a shared vocabulary that is both originated by, and familiar to, its primary users. In a web community the tagging sharing is rather interesting concept, where by sharing user-generated content they reach a common level of knowledge.

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