[Sigia-l] Taxonomy + Folksonomy ?

[Ken Bryson]

Sounds like a thesaurus with a bunch of entry (Use For) terms.  Some
thesaurus entries for your example below could be:

TERM: Animals 
USE FOR: Critters
NarrowTerm: Carnivores

TERM: Critters
USE: Animals

TERM: DomesticCats 
USE FOR: Kitties
BroaderTerm: Felines

Term: Kitties
USE: DomesticCats


If there is a one to one relationship between entry (folksonomy) and
preferred (taxonomy), then what you describe is a standard controlled
vocabulary Thesaurus.

However, if say Critters could refer to both Animals and Children, then
your system would have to include some kind of method to know which of
the two (or both) to return results for.

Also, how would the system allow for users tagging the Children content
with the Critters tag, when the Critters tag is already associated with
the Animals content? 

Cheers,

-kb


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Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 10:13 AM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sigia-l] Taxonomy + Folksonomy ?

Howdy all,

I'm imagining a system (for a project) where a fixed taxonomy exists,
but where each node in the taxonomy is also associatated (editorially,
by humans) with a series of folksonomy tags.

So, for example, the system's fixed taxonomy might have:

Animals-->Carnivores-->Felines-->DomesticCats

Each node of this taxonomy might then be associated with various free
folksonomic tags, so the taxonomic "Animals" might also include any data
object tagged with the folksonomy tag "critters". Objects tagged "meat
eaters" or "predators" would fall under "Carnivores"

As users create arbitrary new folksonomy tags (for example someone
spontaneously tags an article about housecats with "kitties"), an editor
will catch the new tag and then find a close analogue among the fixed
taxonomy (in this case, "kitties would map to "DomesticCats"). 

This system implies that much of the content will not marked by the
taxonomy, either because it is being imported from elsewhere or because
we don't want to show a complex taxonomy UI to a user, instead just
letting them tag freely. 

Has anyone seen a system like this in place somewhere?

Is this simply a synonym system, or is it something more?

Any thoughts on such a system?

Thanks,
-Cf

Christopher Fahey
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