Folksonomy, Flickr and Me

After reading these links, I would like to conclude or kind of copy the definition of folksonomy from the reading. Folksonomy comes from the combination of the words folk and taxonomy, and the term folksonomy means “people’s classification management”. Thomas stated that folksonomy is tagging that works, which contains three tenets of this term: tag, object being tagged and identity for clarifying tag terms and providing for a rich understanding of the object being tagged. The Process of folksonomic tagging is intended to make a body of information increasingly easy to search, discover, and navigate. Flickr is an example to this.

Flickr is one of photo sharing web services and an online community platform. Users can get free space in Flickr to upload their own photos or images and share with almost everyone (if you setting your Flickr for public use). Other users can also leave their comments in your Flickr space and in some sense to get contacts, feedbacks or reflections from viewers. But the interesting thing is that Flicker allows photo sunmitters to categorize images by using tags, which will be easy for searchers to get images about a certain topic. In Flickr’s site, it also provides a quick access to images tagged with the most popular keywords, which viewers can get the information quite conveniently.

I t created an account in Flickr two days ago, but I have not uploaded any images until now. Well, I think I will share my images and photos in my Flickr soon^^