Comments on: Folksonomy vs. Taxonomy

By: Getting interest of people by analysing tags an compare them to encyclopedias | vIdentity

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:53:37 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: sebastian

sebastian — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:06:04 +0000

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

By: tobi

tobi — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:33:19 +0000

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!?