folksonomy

Definition

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.

Etymology

Blend of folk + (tax)onomy, with the S extracted from the double consonant X.

Example Sentences

• "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."