by psd

Folksonomy
a system of taxonomy (classification)
based on the collaborative production of
‘uags’ for uhe indexing and cauegorising of
content.

Portmanteau
Neologism
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakingtiger/3157623372/
TagGinG Tags

by Overig
Meta Data
• data that
describes Data

• Audio, text,
images, etc

• For location by
browsing or
searching
by Gideon Burton
 Taxonomy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/morville/3220961040/

scientific taxonomies
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opoterser/3634381424/
folk taxonomies
 Wisdom
of
Crowds
(Surowiecki, 2004)
FOLK
http://www.flickr.com/photos/-staci-/3353091135/
 Limitations
 Lack of Controlled
Vocabulary
 “Horseless” Carriage
 Clouds not Trees
 User bias, Error & Sabotage
 Portability

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gadl/465833235/
by Danilo Prates

by manoellemos
FLICKR.COM
 Participation
‚vhe uagging tysuem employed by Flickr ...
is one of the ways that people find one
anouher’s phouos ouuside of pools and
contacts – is a bottom-up classification
system that not only decentralizes control
over many collections and pools, but also
contributes to the development of a non-
hierarchical communiuy aesuheuic. ‚
(Murray, 2008, 159)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakingtiger/3157621912/
 Notes
Comments
Favourites
Collections/ Sets
Groups
Tags
Contacts
Statistics http://www.flickr.com/photos/chaparral/388505611/
 User-
Generated
Communities
and
collections

http://www.flickr.com/photos/linhngan/2645589939/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveward/378148264/
 by Tiago ∙ Ribeiro

Discourse of Photography
And the end of Cyberspace

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fixe/3673304
464/
 Photography
1880s easy to use roll-film

2000s Digital Camera Ubiquity

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elsie/3400649991/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/major_clanger/60191839/
/www.dumpr.net/
the Digital

/photoshop-phriday/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/901575@N23/

ordinary

http://www.flickr.com/photos/koalazymonkey/3140186262/

The everyday
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miguelvaca/256462924/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerriet/553027783/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/moriza/308483890/
Amenability and Interoperability

http://www.flickr.com/photos/focalcurve/2424068424/
 Fixity and the Cultural Archive
http://www.flickr.com/photos/notionscapital/2408574436/

The Commons

http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/3291223203/
A wet Angel Place, Sydney, 1930s / Sam Hood

http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/3293630577/in/photostream
 to
conclude...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/moriza/2901167359/in/set-72157605711735327/
 Images In This Lecture
Were found using the
Creative Commons
License Search at
FLICKR.COM

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakingtiger
/3156792397/
 In your blog document your
experimentation with Flickr.
• Choose a theme or topic related to your web project.
• Search for related images by text and by tags, compare the
results.
• Add the images to your favourites and then create your own
gallery.
• Add your own tags to the images you select.
• Add the owners of the images to your contact list.
• Find their RSS feeds and add them to your RSS reader.
• Finally in your blog answer the following: how does Flickr own,
define and use uhe concepu of ‘inueresuingness’?