folksonomy
nounEtymology Blend of folk + taxonomy.
1
Internet 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.
2
Internet A user-generated taxonomy.
- 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.2011, Charles Wankel, Educating Educators with Social Media, page 291:
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