Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy. Peterson, E. D-Lib Magazine, 12(11):1–6, November, 2006. 00117
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"The choice to use folksonomy for organizing information on the Internet is not a simple, straightforward decision, but one with important underlying philosophical issues. Although folksonomy advocates are beginning to correct some linguistic and cultural variations when applying tags, inconsistencies within the folksonomic classification scheme will always persist...Most information seekers want the most relevant hits when keying in a search query. Folksonomy is a scheme based on philosophical relativism, and therefore it will always include the failings of relativism. A traditional classification scheme will consistently provide better results to information seekers." Commentary by Elaine Peterson, Montana State University.
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	title = {Beneath the {Metadata}: {Some} {Philosophical} {Problems} with {Folksonomy}},
	volume = {12},
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	abstract = {"The choice to use folksonomy for organizing information on the Internet is not a simple, straightforward decision, but one with important underlying philosophical issues. Although folksonomy advocates are beginning to correct some linguistic and cultural variations when applying tags, inconsistencies within the folksonomic classification scheme will always persist...Most information seekers want the most relevant hits when keying in a search query. Folksonomy is a scheme based on philosophical relativism, and therefore it will always include the failings of relativism. A traditional classification scheme will consistently provide better results to information seekers." Commentary by Elaine Peterson, Montana State University.},
	number = {11},
	journal = {D-Lib Magazine},
	author = {Peterson, Elaine},
	month = nov,
	year = {2006},
	note = {00117},
	pages = {1--6},
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