Democratic folksonomy: in response to ‘Beneath the Metadata’
“Metadata systems retain their integrity through control over what terms are used to describe the things that they refer to. It wouldn’t help anyone if what was generally accepted as a car is referred to as an ‘angular-wheely-thing’ just because one person chooses to call it this, freely adding it to the folksonomy.” (Kevin Shoesmith – Venn Communications Systems)