Folksonomy

Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords. More colloquially, this refers to a group of people cooperating spontaneously to organize information into categories. In contrast to formal classification methods, this phenomenon typically only arises in non-hierarchical communities, such as public websites, as opposed to multi-level teams and hierarchical organization. Since the organizers of the information are usually its primary users, advocates of folksonomy believe it produces results that reflect more accurately the population's conceptual model of the information. Folksonomy is not directly related to the concept of faceted classification from library science.

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There is debate over any relationship between Folksonomy and Folk taxonomy.

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Neologism: :For the Wikipedia guideline, see...

Keyword: Keyword (Computer), In computer science an identifier which indicates a specific command.Keyword (Linguistics)Keywords: Words that may be used by viewers searching for information on the internet. Using the best keywords to describe your web site helps get those searchers to visit.A keyword *is a fe...

Faceted classification: A faceted classification system allows the assignment of multiple classifications to an object, allowing searching and browsing of related information through several classes. Elements may include subject, geographical, temporal and form of an item....