How to build on bubble-up folksonomies
Building folksonomies from the bottom up ...
"A few days ago I wrote about Phonetags, an experimental internal service that we've been running inside the BBC which allows you to bookmark, tag and rate songs you've heard on the radio with your mobile phone. Now I want to talk briefly a bit about one interesting way of using folksonomic tags that we developed conceptually while building the system.
The concept is really simple - there are concepts in the world that can be loosely described as being made up of aggregations of other smaller component concepts. In such systems, if you encourage the tagging of the smallest component parts, then you can aggregate those tags up through the whole system. You get - essentially - free metadata on a whole range of other concepts. Let me give you an example.
In Phonetags, we allow users to bookmark, rate and tag songs. They do so for a combination of personal gain and to add their voice to the collective. But music radio shows can be loosely understood as a collection of songs, and music radio networks can be equally understood as a collection of shows. So if ten songs that are well-rated and tagged with 'alternative' and 'pop' are played on one specific radio show, it's quite plausible to argue that the show itself could be automatically understood as being tagged with 'alternative', 'pop' and that it should be considered well-rated. Similarly if all the shows are equally tagged with 'alternative', then it's likely that you could describe the network that broadcasts them as an 'alternative' station." continued ... (Via plasticbag.org)
"A few days ago I wrote about Phonetags, an experimental internal service that we've been running inside the BBC which allows you to bookmark, tag and rate songs you've heard on the radio with your mobile phone. Now I want to talk briefly a bit about one interesting way of using folksonomic tags that we developed conceptually while building the system.
The concept is really simple - there are concepts in the world that can be loosely described as being made up of aggregations of other smaller component concepts. In such systems, if you encourage the tagging of the smallest component parts, then you can aggregate those tags up through the whole system. You get - essentially - free metadata on a whole range of other concepts. Let me give you an example.
In Phonetags, we allow users to bookmark, rate and tag songs. They do so for a combination of personal gain and to add their voice to the collective. But music radio shows can be loosely understood as a collection of songs, and music radio networks can be equally understood as a collection of shows. So if ten songs that are well-rated and tagged with 'alternative' and 'pop' are played on one specific radio show, it's quite plausible to argue that the show itself could be automatically understood as being tagged with 'alternative', 'pop' and that it should be considered well-rated. Similarly if all the shows are equally tagged with 'alternative', then it's likely that you could describe the network that broadcasts them as an 'alternative' station." continued ... (Via plasticbag.org)
Folksonomies bubbling up.
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