Folksonomy
Classification that emerges from many users freely tagging content; the term was coined by Thomas Vander Wal in 2004 and became the bottom-up counterpoint to formal ontologies.
Part of the thread Ontology against folksonomy proposes
builds on
alternative to
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Ontology (information science)
concept
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bottom-up tagging instead of formal, top-down categories
subject of
- Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags writing 2005 [src]
built upon by
- Curated folksonomy concept 2018 [src]
- Hashtag concept 2007 [src]