Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging
“Today’s ‘hot topic’ is collaborative tagging: the classification of items using free-text tags, unconstrained and arbitrary values. Tagging services are separated into two general classifications: ‘broad’, meaning that many different users can tag a single resource, or ‘narrow’, meaning that a resource is tagged by only one or a few users.” (Emma Tonkin – Ariadne Issue 47) – courtesy of libraryclips