folksonomy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categories; the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.
  2. A user-generated taxonomy.

Word forms

folksonomy folksonomies

Etymology

Blend of folk + (tax)onomy, with the S extracted from the double consonant X.

Related words

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