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Folksonomies are a set of terms (called tags) collected from Natural Language. These tags are used to describe web resources semantically. Context: The term belongs to the Social Web vocabulary. In social tagging, users describe their own or external social web resources with tags. Advantages:
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Origin: Term coined by Thomas Van Der Wal, merging the terms folk (people) and taxonomy. Examples:
Folksonomies and ontologies: The goal of Folksontologies is to build ontologies from folksonomies. This implies linking every tag from a folksonomy with semantic relationships. This achieves shared conceptualizations for user groups. Related Resources
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Jorge Morato (5/11/2009)
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