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April 21, 2005
Folksonomy-enabled plugin for database tagging
Freetag is a "tagging and folksonomy-enabled plugin for use with MySQL-PHP applications. It allows you to create tags on existing database schemas, and access and manage your tags through a robust API."
Oooooh cool! How great would it be to be able to implement something like this into, say, a catalog! I know, I'm dreaming. But mapping or knitting a folksonomic infrastructure into an existing catalog schema would be oh so interesting (not to mention useful and user-friendly). Imagine having a Folksonomic Zeitgeist for your own particular institutional knowledge ecology, that represented in real-time what users are tagging within your collection, what's 'hot' at the moment, and what vocabularies they're using. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before we see things like this emerging in libraryland.
Posted on April 21, 2005 9:19 AM to cool new tools | popular posts