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Market Watch - Taxonomy and folksonomy.
Research conducted last year by Delphi Group indicates a growing awareness of the importance of taxonomy and classification. In a survey of 300 organisations, 68% of respondents thought that taxonomy was 'imperative', 'very important' or 'important' to business strategy. This is a marked 13% increase on the findings of the previous survey conducted two years earlier.
Almost 60% of survey respondents said that, in their organisations, taxonomy strategy is driven by IT personnel, with only 6% reporting that librarians were in charge.
That shouldn't be surprising, but thinking of classification purely as a technological challenge and ignoring the human component of knowledge exchange is to miss the true strategic benefit, which can be derived from the effective use of metadata.
A new perspective on the issue is the concept of a 'folksonomy', a term coined by information architect Thomas Vander Wal to describe a collection of metadata created by users, which is developed in a collaborative 'bottom-up' fashion rather than the 'top-down' fashion of a controlled ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Market Watch - Taxonomy and folksonomy.