Meaning of folksonomy | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
   Internet, uncountable
2. A user-generated taxonomy.
   Internet, countable

Examples

“We imagined a microlibrary which would be a well organized digital collection of resources, focused specifically on our project, and employing both traditional library cataloging and organization, and the folksonomy made possible by user-generated tagging.”

CEFR level