Folksonomy is overrated?

I think folksonomy might be overrated. The vision and principles of folksonomy are reasonable. The problem stems from the realization.

  • Tagging is a user-oriented cognitive activity, but folksonomy is only statistically weighted terms lists
  • There is no meanings and relationships among each terms
  • Sharing and Reusing data limited to host site
  • Folksonomy itself is NOT solution
  • what do we need?

  • Minimal Structure
  • Minimal Semantic
  • Unique local tag namespace
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