I heard the term folksonomy this morning for the first time. One of the talks I just attended (Emerging Semantics) described how we might use microformats to structure the organization/categorization of information. With microformats we could specify something like "rel=met" in the href tags and build a list of friends that could be traversed by a search engine (and thus understood by a machine intelligence).
A folksonomy is a culture-derived system of these tags. It seems to me that they are pretty closely related to microformats - perhaps microformats are the formalization of thse folksonomies.
Posted by artandscience at March 13, 2005 09:46 AM