Description

An API for module developers for enabling simple non hierarchical classification. This module enables tag based applications like Flickr.com and De.licio.us. This module doesn't actually do anything on its own. It will be used within photo gallery modules, bookmark modules, song modules, and more. Install this module only when another modules instrutions ask that you do so.

"Folksonomy, a portmanteau word combining "folk" and "taxonomy," refers to the collaborative but unsophisticated way in which information is being categorized on the web. Instead of using a centralized form of classification, users are encouraged to assign freely chosen keywords (called tags) to pieces of information or data, a process known as tagging. Examples of web services that use tagging include those designed to allow users to publish and share photographs (Flickr), bookmarks (del.icio.us), social software generally, and most blog software, which permits authors to assign tags to each entry."

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