Folksonomic

Quick meaning: Folksonomic is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to folksonomy.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to folksonomy.

Example Sentences

The author uses information scent and foraging theory as a context to discuss how folksonomy is constructed through interactions among users, a folksonomic system, and a given domain that consists of a group of users who share the same interest or goals.

Now folksonomies are moving into new realms. At the Art Museum Community Cataloging Project, officials from the Guggenheim, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and a half-dozen other establishments are taking a folksonomic approach to their online collections by allowing patrons to supplement the specialized lexicon of curators. And this fall, Amazon.com introduced a system that allows readers to classify books.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include folkly, folk-etymological, folkloric, toponomic, onomastic, ethnonymic.

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