Folksonomies

Survival of the Fittest Tag: Folksonomies, Findability, and the Evolution of Information Organization by Alexis Wichowski. After reading this article I actually feel a bit confused about Folksonomies and what it entails. Maybe it was the authors writing style or choice of wording but I am kind of a little lost. Which I think is the key point of Folksonomies to tag information or give it a category in order for it to be found later. It reminds me of the Dewey Decimal System in that books with similar topics are grouped together so that they are easier to find. The article refers to our old way of organization as a tree and that Folksonomies rakes all of the fallen leaves together. I like the idea of giving forgotten or lost information a chance to be rediscovered. Folksonomies then is like the Indiana Jones of the Digital World. Except without the temple of doom or crystal skulls.