Beneath the Metadata

Peterson, E. (2006). Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy. D-Lib Magazine, 12(11).

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2006

DOI

10.1045/november2006-peterson

Link

https://doi.org/10.1045/november2006-peterson

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Mechanisms

• Controlled Vocabularies
  • It is the antidote to the sprawl of an uncontrolled folksonomy, where the same idea fractures across countless free-text variants.

    This sourceContrasts controlled vocabularies with open-ended folksonomies whose user-supplied tags can vary and become inconsistent.

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