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804) The Constellations site relocates to Folksonomy.org.uk
(803) Launch of The Folksonomy Integration Tool !
Utterance:
I have just completed developing the
Folksonomy application. The application represents an effort to further my interrogation of the Constellations metaphor.
As a user of the application you will be able to build connections and integrate references useful to your research/creative practice. It will provide opportunities for you to discover connections between your enquiry and the enquiry of members of the Folksonomy community. Your participation will also help me with my research.
Folksonomy is a structured repository and pedagogical tool. It has been designed to support the concept building process used by creative practitioners. It helps users to identify conceptual links during their 'data collection'. It simplifies the process of collecting text references, photographs and YouTube video clips useful for supporting research enquiry. In this way the application not only streamlines reference collection but also supports users in their identification of creative concepts.
Significantly the application employs a 'bottom-up' taxonomic method to organise content. This method is colloquially referred to as a 'folksonomy' - where content is able to simultaneously belong to multiple and sometimes contradictory categories. The logic of a folksonomy sits in stark contrast to the more traditional logic conventionally employed by libraries and computer operating systems where books and files are organised according to linear, centralised and hierarchical regimens.
Folksonomies provide a way of leveraging the potential of ambiguity inherent in language. They provide a means of privileging interpretation and multiplicity over universality and singularity. As an application of this logic Folksonomy helps to expose the changeable and evolving nature of meaning as "we language reality into [and out of] existence" (Whorf 1956).
Download the
Folksonomy User Guide here.
Whorf, B. L. (1956). Language, thought and reality. New York, Wiley.
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