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Folksonomies
offer a useful and potentially entertaining system for organizing files
or
URLs on the internet, and for browsing items tagged by others.
They are popular in large part because they
are
easy to use, provide a service that would not exist otherwise, and
allow people to share and interact. The personal
non-hierarchical
language used for tagging is both a strength and a
weakness. Over time, this lack of standardization may become more
of a weakness as language use changes or as more objects are tagged
with the same keywords.
As to what the future holds for folksonomies, it may be too soon to say. There is potential for tagging features to be incorporated into existing search engines or computer operating systems in the long term. In the short term we are likely to see tags appear in many more places on the web. Folksonomies are likely to grow beyond socially interactive blogging, mapping, bookmarking, and imaging sites, but to what extent they will be accepted, and in what form is yet to be seen. |
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