Making taxonomies and folksonomies work together

Daniela Barbosa, who is the business development manager for Synaptica at Dow Jones Client Solutions has written a fabulous eBook explaining how to mix taxonomies built by professionals and folksonomies, which let users tag content as they see fit. On one hand you have a controlled system. On the other, you are putting the power to organize within reach of the masses, but this can get chaotic. How do you reconcile these two seemingly disparate goals?

Barbosa has authored a beautiful pdf eBook called, "The Taxonomy Folksonomy Cookbook: Finding the Right Recipe for Organizing Enterprise Metadata." She has organized the eBook in the fashion of a colorful, old-fashioned cookbook. But it doesn't just look amazing (which it does), it is packed full of useful information written in an easy-to-understand fashion.

Barbosa has managed to take a complex topic and break it down so that even people who have no clue what a taxonomy is can understand it. And she does it with bold, colorful graphics and quick bite-size chunks of information of no more than two paragraphs each. She hasn't skimped on detail, and what you need to know to understand, to reconcile and to incorporate both organizational systems at your company.

To learn more:
- read Barbosa's eBook