Probably the first post about folksonomies, long before the term was coined and social softwares like del.icio.us and flickr saw the light, was written by Peter Merholz and is dated 11/10/2001!

In a post titled Vernacular Thesauri, Peter talked about user generated classification after attending to ASIST 2001.

Her talk got me thinking about community-generated, or “vernacular” […]

User Interface Engineering presents a nice post from Joshua Portar of Bokardo titled Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content.

Nothing new but a few phrases to notice about the pros that folksonomies have in respect to taxonomies

Folksonomies…addresses two of the most difficult problems with taxonomies.

First:

The information within folksonomies is organized and maintained by users, […]

I’m actually preparing an article to summarize the online material about folksonomies and social/free tagging.

Looking on the site of Adaptive Path I’ve found a simply essay on the topic:

Metadata for the Masses from Peter Merholz

It’s nice to notice the date of the article: October 19, 2004. At that time folksonomies we’re still not very […]

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