CAD company kickstarts folksonomy for product knowledge sharing
Posted on:: February 2nd, 2005
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.
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And is it still a folksonomy if you use tags “suggested” by a central authority for better aggregation of content?
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 ?