Folksonomy

Although many of us learned the Dewey decimal system in our middle school education, it is hardly something that most remember anything about. The new system of ‘Folksonomy’ is using words to tag resources, instead of numbers, to create a system in which information is easily found on the web. By tagging items in different sites, people are creating a system in which related items can be easily accessed through the tags. This system, I believe is of much greater use to the users of online websites. By using a word to tag instead of numbers, people can simply just search what they are looking for rather than searching for its reference number, then looking for the item itself.

Websites like Delicious are great resources to store frequently used sites, locate them and all related material quickly and share them with other users. I have used delicious for a major class project and thought it was extremely helpful in organizing and sharing all of our resources.