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Folksonomies, tagging, and content management

19-May-2005

Tags: Document Management (ECM), Information Architecture

Since being coined last year, the concept of "folksonomies" has lit up blogosphere. A fairly practical discussion has ensued on the CM Pros listserv (membership required). It turns out that the enterprise pull and tug over the category terms underneath most content management systems often resembles a kind of folk effort after all. A good content analyst will also carefully consider the folk-supplied terms in website search engine logs. Meanwhile, several prominent information architects have gotten together a group blog about tagging -- called "You're It!" -- to ask and try to answer some basic questions, including whether tagging is ultimately futile. Bob Doyle argues passionately that it is not. Experienced content management leaders know at least this: keep tagging very simple for contributors...

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