In the Web 2.0 environment, users are empowered to collaborate and share information. This has
made the Web more participatory in nature thereby increasing the content creation at a rapid pace.
With this, the ever challenging problem of categorizing content over the Web has increased
tremendously. To combat this, Web 2.0 has one feature known as “Folksonomy”. This allows users to
attach tags to the content so that they can use these tags to retrieve the content in the future.
Folksonomy has pros & cons compared to traditional subject indexing. This paper describes the
fundamental problems inherited to Folksonomy with a case study of user tagging in Social Question
& Answer Platform used within Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
Hanif N, Mohmed(INFLIBNET Center, February 25, 2009)
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Abstract:
The latest buzzword in the Internet world is ‘Web 2.0’. It was enabled by the emergence of platforms
such as blogging, social networks, free image & video uploading, etc that collectively allowed easy
content creation and sharing by everyone. Altogether, Web 2.0 delivers a rich user experience. This
paper deals with Web 2.0 features, characteristics, applications, benefits and paradigms observed
by its implementation in libraries.