INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Documentation Research and Training Centre 8TH Mile, Mysore Road Bangalore – 560059 DRTC Colloquium (7) 2008-2010 FROM CLASSIFICATION TO FOLKSONOMIES ABSTRACT A flurry of discussion in the information architecture community has revolved around a concept being called among other things, “social classification,” “ethno classification” and “folksonomies”. Social bookmark tools are rapidly emerging on the Web. In such system users are setting up lightweight conceptual structure called folksonomies. Folksonomy is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. Folksonomy describes the bottom-up classification systems that emerge from social tagging. This colloquium focuses on developments in this area. Facets Speaker Overview Nilesh (Leader) Classification -Top down approach (Taxonomy) Tarun Kumar Collaborative content organization Priyanki Sinha Real world Floksonomies Ali Raza Tools behind the stage Binit Kiran Improved Floksonomies Shion Guha Conclusion Babar Raees Venue: DRTC classroom Date :27 May 2009 Time: 2.00pm All are cordially invited M. Krishnamurthy Colloquium coordinator -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.