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February 02, 2005

CAD company kickstarts folksonomy for product knowledge sharing

ProgeSOFT is encouraging its users to tag content about its products (IntelliCAD, PRogeCAD) so they can learn from one another. It's recommending three tags — intellicad, learnintellicad, and "learn software" — for use at del.icio.us, flickr and blog sites via technorati tags.

Great experiment, although I'm not convinced that those are the right tags, especially the "learn software" one. Is that so you can search for items tagged both as "intellicad" and "learn software"? It'll be interesting to see how the folks develop their own folksonomy.

I don't mean to carp. I think this is a truly interesting idea. My hat is off to ProfeSOFT.

Posted by D. Weinberger at February 2, 2005 12:58 PM

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And is it still a folksonomy if you use tags "suggested" by a central authority for better aggregation of content?

Posted by: Tanya | February 3, 2005 11:56 AM

Isn't a wee, early example of how controlled vocabularies used for tagging might add value to the inevitable use of author-generated tags ... the combination of the two yielding a cooperative classification, a la Adam Mathes ?

Posted by: Jon Husband | February 3, 2005 08:59 PM

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