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folksonomy.

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.

10 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  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
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Blend of folk + taxonomy.

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