Collaborative knowledge gardening
John Udell on 'folksonomy' or user-driven taxonomy of Flickr and del.icio.us and the problems of adapting it to an enterprise environment. "These systems offer lots of ways to visualize and refine the tag space. It’s easy to know whether a tag you’ve used is unique or, conversely, popular. It’s easy to rename a tag across a set of items. It’s easy to perform queries that combine tags. Armed with such powerful tools, people can collectively enrich shared data. But will they? The success of Flickr and del.icio.us won’t necessarily translate to the intranet. You can import the global-hive mind, but you can’t export the local-hive mind. That asymmetry defines the challenge we face as enterprise knowledge gardeners."Permalink | Tuesday, October 05, 2004
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