[Sigcr-l] question on The Power To Tag 12|03

[Simon Spero]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Margaret Kipp <margaret.kipp at gmail.com>wrote:

> There has been one review article of tagging research published so far that
> covers research up to 2007.
>
> Trant, J. 2009. Studying social tagging and folksonomy: A review and
> framework. Journal of Digital Information 10(1).
> http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/269
>

I still think that folksonomy distracts us from the importance of  "folk
taxonomies" (as contrasted with  "scientific taxonomies"). Using Hayek's
terms, Folk taxonomies are  *Kosmos* , or grown order; scientific taxonomies
are *Taxis*, or made order. By virtue of being culturally evolved, Folk
taxonomies tend to be a very good match with human cognitive constraints,
including  the primacy of  the basic level terms and a tendency to be much
shallower than artificially designed orderings (I seem to remember reading
that they typically had a  maximum depth of  7±2 , but I forgot to mark the
spot. Stupid non-greppable dead trees).

I have 157 tagging related articles tagged on CiteULike if anyone is
> interested (http://www.citeulike.org/user/meikipp/tag/tagging)
> including about 125 that I cited in my thesis.
>

If one  subscribed to the RSS feed, one could even have inferred that you
were about to defend based on the rate that entries were being added this
summer :--)

Simon