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Plutôt que de démarrer avec un titre barbare, Ed a astucieusement choisit un titre révélateur pour la communauté des futurs bibliothécaires de son département : « Et si les lecteurs avaient le choix d'organiser le classement des livres. » Il s'agit tout à fait de cela et rien de plus. Et l'analogie est tellement puissante et intéressante, qu'elle va beaucoup plus loin qu'on ne le pense.

1. Introduction A folksonomy is a type of distributed classification system. It is usually created by a group of individuals, typically the resource users. Users add tags to online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks and text. These tags are then shared and sometimes refined. A general review of social bookmarking tools, one popular use area of folksonomies, was given in the April edition of D-Lib [1]. In the article the authors elaborate on the approach taken by social classification systems and the motivators behind tagging. They write, "...tags are just one kind of metadata and are not a replacement for formal classification systems such as Dublin Core, MODS, etc.... Rather, they are a supplemental means to organise information and order search results."

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