print email comment close E-Media Tidbits: 'Folksonomies' to Organize the News URL: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=79865 Description: Overview of folksonomies, "a term used to describe how large groups of people can organize information by adding freely chosen keywords." Discusses examples of folksonomies used at Web sites such as Flickr and del.icio.us, and applications for the news media. Includes links to related articles. From the Web site of the Poynter Institute. Author: Van Dusseldorp, Monique Publisher: The Poynter Institute Extra Keywords tags indexing taxonomy delicious Library of Congress Subject Headings: Folk classification Information organization Internet LII Database Information: Record 16621 created by Jennifer English on 03/21/2005 Last modification on 03/24/2005 Published: 03/21/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/16621