folksonomies classification OPAC

First off, I found the that the
readings this week filled my head with all sorts of different thoughts on what
folksonomies are and their usefulness, and some big words were thrown in for
good measure (Kroski talks about ‘ontology’ and I nearly fell out of my chair).
So, after reading the articles and looking elsewhere for some definitions, I
have come up with my own definition for what ‘folksonomy’ means (with thanks to
Kroski and Funk and Wagnalls):

Reading about folksonomies this week really drove home the positive benefits of using social tagging in a library context, and more broadly. Despite traditional cataloguing having done fairly well in library OPACs over time, there have been limitations to its practical use by the average person. In order for an individual to be able to exploit the library OPAC fully, it is necessary for them to become a sort of expert in the subject classification system.