folksonomy
Noun
The spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categories; the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.
Usage- Internet
- Uncountable
A user-generated taxonomy.
Usage- Internet
- Countable
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We imagined a microlibrary which would be a well organized digital collection of resources, focused specifically on our project, and employing both traditional library cataloging and organization, and the folksonomy made possible by user-generated tagging.
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folksonomies