Saturday, August 15, 2009

OLR- Topic 1 Exercise 2

Folksonomy/ FOAF

Folksonomy is

  • about social networks & online communities and these people classifying/categorising their own data
  • the process of organising data (different interests) using tags.
  • can be used to find information

FOAF is

  • an acronym of Friend of a friend
  • the use of a predetermined code (machine readable) on describing oneself, activities and the interactions with others
  • a data base of information on people using an email address,URI or blog as an identifier.

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