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03 Nov 2005
Folksonomy and MicroContent
Vander Wal complains about the current definition of folksonomy on Wikipedia. He sees more layers to folksonomy. he sees a relation between the viewer, the item and the tag itself.
I would place his comments in an emerging MicroWeb context and a relation to a personal profile / attention. The viewer is the person that reads and uses MicroContent items in various ways. This is the whole world of attention. Some MicroContent items are only viewed, some are bookmarked, some are tagged, some are commented upon in a weblog and some are copied in order to be kept. Attention has many levels.
The item basically the MicroContent Item with all its fields and structure, and the original author of that MicroContent Item. This author can also add tags/categories to his Item, which thus become part of the Item.
Thus we have two types of tags: viewer tags and item tags. One could see the viewer tags as bookmarks pointing to the item. An item will have viewer tag sphere around it, with all the tags tagged by viewers.
Similarly an author will have an attention tag sphere around himself. In this sphere are all the explicit tags he created, but also implicit tags of the MicroContent Items he viewed, but did not tag himself.
These tag spheres are the real MicroWeb of the future. And now extend it to other kind of fields as well, such as geotags, persons, etc.
And all these fields make a very interesting MicroWeb.
[Inspiration Martin Lindner]