Folksonomies: bits of research and visual browsing

As I still have work to do I’m not going to add relevant links for the on-going discussions on folksonomies, related tools and social implications, but just link to a few things.

Bits of research:

• Bookmark, Classify and Share: A mini-ethnography of social practices in a distributed classification community
• Folksonomies – Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata

Visualising del.icio.us:

• “related tag” network visualisation
• del.icio.us subscriptions as social networks

Regarding the last one:

• Wonder how many people actually look at their del.icio.us subscriptions (I don’t)
• Thought that it would be fun visualising social networks based on similar linking patterns, but discovered that that particular feature is not in del.icio.us anymore. Given how often I used it as an argument it’s pretty stupid not having screenshots.

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2005/01/26.html#a1489; comments are here.

• Topics and terms (categorisations and text analysis) for weblog conversations
• Converging metadata and emerging ontologies
• extisp.icio.us: visualisation of your del.icio.us tags

Tagged as: knowledge mapping, ontologies