evolving taxonomies

organically growing taxonomies developed in an individual context (personomies) or shared context (folksonomies)

through emergent clusters, comparison etc across publicised tags and links, a coherent emergent folksonomy can emerge (Rettburg, 2005)

  • Rettberg, S. (2005) ‘All Together Now: Collective Knowledge, Collective Narratives, and Architectures of Participation’.