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Survival of the fittest tag: Folksonomies, findability, and the evolution of information organization | digitizationblog
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Survival of the fittest tag: Folksonomies, findability, and the evolution of information organization

Fri, 2009/05/01 - 3:16pm — mark

This article by Alexis Wichowski in the May First Monday

examines folksonomies from an evolutionary perspective, viewing the changing conditions of the information environment as having given rise to organization adaptations in order to ensure information “survival” — remaining findable. This essay traces historical information organization mechanisms, the conditions that gave rise to folksonomies, and the scholarly response, review, and recommendations for the future of folksonomies.