* I forgot the "folksonomy" tagging projects, too :)
January 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
* I forgot the "folksonomy" tagging projects, too :)
The main difference: label values have global definitions, while hashtags are a folksonomy. Labelers publish those definitions so that clients know how to interpret them.
March 12, 2024 at 8:44 PM
The main difference: label values have global definitions, while hashtags are a folksonomy. Labelers publish those definitions so that clients know how to interpret them.
Based on the standard.site discourse last week, I've spent some time formalizing a folksonomy of lexicons. Would love to hear any feedback or other types of lexicons worth including (with attribution) before publishing!
[Draft] A folksonomy of lexicons
leaflet.pub
August 4, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Based on the standard.site discourse last week, I've spent some time formalizing a folksonomy of lexicons. Would love to hear any feedback or other types of lexicons worth including (with attribution) before publishing!
I wrote about an alternate idea for organizing design systems. ericwbailey.website/published/or...
Organizing a design system via folksonomy
No hierarchy other than what people create for themselves.
ericwbailey.website
May 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I wrote about an alternate idea for organizing design systems. ericwbailey.website/published/or...
Help me classify the design and intent of different lexicons!
A folksonomy of lexicons
On the design and intent of different lexicons
chrisshank.leaflet.pub
August 6, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Help me classify the design and intent of different lexicons!
The serendipitous, human-curated web was pretty amazing.
Bring back RSS feeds, web rings, and social bookmarking/folksonomy tools like del.icio.us.
Bring back RSS feeds, web rings, and social bookmarking/folksonomy tools like del.icio.us.
April 4, 2026 at 3:44 PM
The serendipitous, human-curated web was pretty amazing.
Bring back RSS feeds, web rings, and social bookmarking/folksonomy tools like del.icio.us.
Bring back RSS feeds, web rings, and social bookmarking/folksonomy tools like del.icio.us.
Don't know if this could be considered a technical mistake but their insistence on EVERYTHING being folksonomy with zero controlled vocabulary has caused so much unnecessary trouble.
December 9, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Don't know if this could be considered a technical mistake but their insistence on EVERYTHING being folksonomy with zero controlled vocabulary has caused so much unnecessary trouble.
Letterboxd has fundamentally solved movie discovery:
Users curate movie lists.
You click on the most distinctive titles to find other lists by people with a similar taste.
It's simple folksonomy: no algos pushing the platform's own products.
Can we have that for games?
Users curate movie lists.
You click on the most distinctive titles to find other lists by people with a similar taste.
It's simple folksonomy: no algos pushing the platform's own products.
Can we have that for games?
October 17, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Letterboxd has fundamentally solved movie discovery:
Users curate movie lists.
You click on the most distinctive titles to find other lists by people with a similar taste.
It's simple folksonomy: no algos pushing the platform's own products.
Can we have that for games?
Users curate movie lists.
You click on the most distinctive titles to find other lists by people with a similar taste.
It's simple folksonomy: no algos pushing the platform's own products.
Can we have that for games?
just riffing or, ahem, 'vibe coding' (🤮) on @ericwbailey.website's idea of folksonomy in Design Systems.
article: ericwbailey.website/published/or...
article: ericwbailey.website/published/or...
May 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
just riffing or, ahem, 'vibe coding' (🤮) on @ericwbailey.website's idea of folksonomy in Design Systems.
article: ericwbailey.website/published/or...
article: ericwbailey.website/published/or...
This suddenly reminded me of Flickr Machine Tags... and RDF... and "web 2.0" and RSS... and when there were more than five websites.
Remember when there was metadata, not just IPTC taxonomy but folksonomy tags?
Google got everyone to only use an unstructured bag of words, & now search doesn't work!
Remember when there was metadata, not just IPTC taxonomy but folksonomy tags?
Google got everyone to only use an unstructured bag of words, & now search doesn't work!
The average Dialup BBS from the 1990s handles image metadata better than any large online service today. We've been steadily regressing for the past decade or two.
Even Flickr in 2005 could properly manage embedded metadata. Everything has been going downhill since LiveJournal died.
Even Flickr in 2005 could properly manage embedded metadata. Everything has been going downhill since LiveJournal died.
February 4, 2026 at 6:12 AM
This suddenly reminded me of Flickr Machine Tags... and RDF... and "web 2.0" and RSS... and when there were more than five websites.
Remember when there was metadata, not just IPTC taxonomy but folksonomy tags?
Google got everyone to only use an unstructured bag of words, & now search doesn't work!
Remember when there was metadata, not just IPTC taxonomy but folksonomy tags?
Google got everyone to only use an unstructured bag of words, & now search doesn't work!
been a reddit lurker some eighteen years and now glad to never have contributed to it lol. this is a great legacy for the social web, I only wish we could somehow zap a condensed nightmare of all this loathing back to the early 00s, for all the people saying web 2.0 folksonomy conversation blah blah
February 18, 2024 at 5:46 AM
been a reddit lurker some eighteen years and now glad to never have contributed to it lol. this is a great legacy for the social web, I only wish we could somehow zap a condensed nightmare of all this loathing back to the early 00s, for all the people saying web 2.0 folksonomy conversation blah blah
A curated folksonomy is the best thing ever created in culture organization
And the ‘folksonomy’ tagging system is a work of art, both creatively and organisationally. I defy any academic platform to provide similar metadata that makes it so easy to delve precisely to the level of specificity of content you want.
openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/25...
openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/25...
City Research Online - Fandom, Folksonomies and Creativity: the case of the Archive of Our Own
openaccess.city.ac.uk
January 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A curated folksonomy is the best thing ever created in culture organization
used to supplement, however. I’m curious about StoryGraph, which uses a metadata system that’s much more refined than a traditional folksonomy: every book is tagged for pacing and tone, from a controlled vocabulary. Goodreads is mostly useless for readers advisory IMO, but StoryGraph 👀
March 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
used to supplement, however. I’m curious about StoryGraph, which uses a metadata system that’s much more refined than a traditional folksonomy: every book is tagged for pacing and tone, from a controlled vocabulary. Goodreads is mostly useless for readers advisory IMO, but StoryGraph 👀
A system without annotations forces people to stuff annotations into whatever affordance they’re given.
Comment systems do suck, but they definitely suck as repurposed folksonomy metadata.
Comment systems do suck, but they definitely suck as repurposed folksonomy metadata.
I increasingly believe that most replies in big-room social spaces are really semantic tagging: "this post is that kind of thing!" "this post has a keyword I don't like!"
Sometimes you get canned responses that people deliver in response to the tagging/sorting they've done. "I have a meme!"
Sometimes you get canned responses that people deliver in response to the tagging/sorting they've done. "I have a meme!"
April 30, 2026 at 2:40 PM
A system without annotations forces people to stuff annotations into whatever affordance they’re given.
Comment systems do suck, but they definitely suck as repurposed folksonomy metadata.
Comment systems do suck, but they definitely suck as repurposed folksonomy metadata.
hello from the ukrainian restaurant, where the wine list has *tags*, like it’s 2011 and we’re on del.icio.us (and the euromaidan hasn’t happened yet i guess)
October 6, 2024 at 1:06 AM
hello from the ukrainian restaurant, where the wine list has *tags*, like it’s 2011 and we’re on del.icio.us (and the euromaidan hasn’t happened yet i guess)
January 16, 2024 at 1:47 AM
That’s a folksonomy !
September 30, 2023 at 2:07 PM
That’s a folksonomy !
Does everyone have their own tagset, or are you going for a global folksonomy?
September 15, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Does everyone have their own tagset, or are you going for a global folksonomy?
This kind of hearkens back to what was happening with hashtags and “folksonomy” back in the day with things like del.icio.us, hard to build an open taxonomy thats consistent, curatable and resistant to malicious actors, etc
March 6, 2024 at 1:48 AM
This kind of hearkens back to what was happening with hashtags and “folksonomy” back in the day with things like del.icio.us, hard to build an open taxonomy thats consistent, curatable and resistant to malicious actors, etc
YESSSS IT'S AN UNBELIEVABLE SYSTEM entirely volunteer built / moderated, the search is truly fucking phenomenal !!!! a folksonomy triumph, rivalled by only like. idk. wikipedia.
May 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
YESSSS IT'S AN UNBELIEVABLE SYSTEM entirely volunteer built / moderated, the search is truly fucking phenomenal !!!! a folksonomy triumph, rivalled by only like. idk. wikipedia.
New Blog Post.
Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images
thisismattmiller.com/post/lc-flic...
- Organizing 95K photo comments.
- Viewer to explore user georectified images
- Folksonomy tagging vs LCSH Vocabulary
- Placing into the Wiki* knowledge graph
Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images
thisismattmiller.com/post/lc-flic...
- Organizing 95K photo comments.
- Viewer to explore user georectified images
- Folksonomy tagging vs LCSH Vocabulary
- Placing into the Wiki* knowledge graph
LC & Flickr Commons
Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images.
thisismattmiller.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
New Blog Post.
Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images
thisismattmiller.com/post/lc-flic...
- Organizing 95K photo comments.
- Viewer to explore user georectified images
- Folksonomy tagging vs LCSH Vocabulary
- Placing into the Wiki* knowledge graph
Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images
thisismattmiller.com/post/lc-flic...
- Organizing 95K photo comments.
- Viewer to explore user georectified images
- Folksonomy tagging vs LCSH Vocabulary
- Placing into the Wiki* knowledge graph
AO3’s 'folksonomy' tagging system might look chaotic, but it’s also creative genuis: users invent their own tags and volunteer 'tag-wranglers' quietly map it all behind the scenes. What if scholarly publishing embraced that flexibility and let researchers tag their own work in natural language?
October 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
AO3’s 'folksonomy' tagging system might look chaotic, but it’s also creative genuis: users invent their own tags and volunteer 'tag-wranglers' quietly map it all behind the scenes. What if scholarly publishing embraced that flexibility and let researchers tag their own work in natural language?
there's a reason we in info sci call the system ao3 runs on a "folksonomy"
March 13, 2026 at 4:11 AM
there's a reason we in info sci call the system ao3 runs on a "folksonomy"