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Meaning of folksonomic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Of or pertaining to folksonomy.

not-comparable, usually

Examples

“Now folksonomies are moving into new realms. At the Art Museum Community Cataloging Project, officials from the Guggenheim, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and a half-dozen other establishments are taking a folksonomic approach to their online collections by allowing patrons to supplement the specialized lexicon of curators. And this fall, Amazon.com introduced a system that allows readers to classify books.”
“The author uses information scent and foraging theory as a context to discuss how folksonomy is constructed through interactions among users, a folksonomic system, and a given domain that consists of a group of users who share the same interest or goals.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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