In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Thomas Vander Wal of InfoCloud Solutions about Folksonomies, and some of the ways in which this apparently simple concept is being extended to meet today’s complex requirements.

During our conversation, we look back upon the genesis of the term - which Thomas originally coined - and consider the relationship between emergent folksonomies and more established formal taxonomies of terms.

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Download MP3 [57 mins, 26Mb]

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Connectbeam
• Del.icio.us
• Facebook
• Flickr
• Original ‘Folksonomy‘ definition, reproduced on vanderwal.net
• ‘Folksonomy‘ definition on Wikipedia
• Google Alerts
• InfoCloud Solutions
• Ma.gnolia
• Personal Infocloud
• PubSub (under redevelopment)
• Raw Sugar (although not what it used to be)
• Steve.Museum
• Technorati
• Twitter

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Thursday 2 August, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.

For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here.

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