Folksonomy

From Memography

Folksonomy is a new name (coined by Thomas Vander Wal) for a social or collaborative classification scheme in which the classifiers are free to make up the categories or tags. Most classifiers choose from the existing tags as the group of available categories becomes large.

Folksonomies are generally limited to specific sites on the web like flickr and del.icio.us.

Memography establishes a social classification system broad enough to be used throughout the web and as well as on private intranets behind firewalls. It provides public taxonomies (memespaces) and aboutness pages that describe what each meme is about.

Anyone can tag pages with memes from the memography wiki, or follow rules to create non-conflicting memes for corporate and personal use. Memelinks to aboutness pages are URIs that can also be used as RDF properties for the Semantic Web.

As with folksonomies, anyone can add meme tags to their web content to make it part of the new memetic web.

A folksonomy is a “bottom-up” architecture allowing users to make up arbitrary tags. Memography lets you create your own memes, but it adds the “top-down” architecture of multiple taxonomies to categorize and control the many descriptors available to add machine-readable meaning to your web pages.

A memelink is just a meme ID or tag wrapped in a hyperlink to the page on the memography wiki that describes the aboutness of the meme.