| To anyone familiar with top-down classification schemes, this approach could look like a fearful muddle. But this doesn't mean that it is without value - after all, the Web itself appears from the outside as a somewhat messy affair (almost its defining characteristic). Rather, this is an altogether different - and, we would argue, complementary - form of classification. Compared to the traditional top-down approach, folksonomy data is much noisier but also more flexible, more abundant and far cheaper. |
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