dark age

Folksonomy, or ‘folks' and ‘taxonomy', has come to mean "non-hierarchical ontology created as a natural result of user-added metadata or tagging."

Reading through various articles on the subject, I have no conclusions as to how I feel about it.  Rather, I believe there are bits of good and bits of bad.

Here's why;

Folksonomy represents current trends in language and classification. It is the most up-to-date version of the LCA (Library of Congress Authority) one can find.