Folksonomy vs. Taxonomy

After reading many articles about the pros and cons of the world of folksonomy with tags and the world of taxonomies with ontologies and classification, I am not quite sure how it will fit together. The dashed line in the center of the pic marks the frontier. At the moment I do not believe in reassambling, but maybe there will be something that pushes it forward.

Taxonomy vs Folksonomy

3 Responses to “Folksonomy vs. Taxonomy”

  1. tobi says:

    Hm well, I think they necessarily don’t have to fit together 1:1. For me it’s two different approaches: Taxonomy is top down, Folksonomy is bottom up!
    Folksonomy has the intances (data) and needs classes, Ontology has the classes and needs instances. In case of a good ontology they may meet in between, but yeah – this is the trick!
    Recommendation systems which offers classes of the ontology to tag may bring them both together!?

  2. sebastian says:

    Here is an other answer. To suit the whole thing together you’ll have to build up an ontology by using tagging and make some asserstions: The TagOntology

  3. [...] at the following drawing. Some weeks ago i thought about how to connect the tags with some order. Slowly it gets clearer. One have to use existing classifiations. My first try will use wikipedia [...]

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