In einem Artikel auf uie.com gibt Joshua Porter eine kurze Einführung in die Probleme der hierarchische Organisation von Informationen (Taxonomie) und stellt einen – mittlerweile fast schon weitverbreiteten – anwenderorientierten Lösungsansatz vor, bei dem die Anwender die Informationen eines Systems selbst organisieren (Folksonomie):
Although taxonomies are common, it can be difficult for design teams to implement them. For one thing, taxonomies are very expensive to create and maintain, often involving month-long projects by several members of the team. For sites with thousands (or even millions) of pages, this Herculean task is sometimes never complete. As a result, broken taxonomies can remain until the design team attempts a complete redesign. Second, taxonomies may fail to reflect the language of users if they are not fully tested with the target population. This results in a less effective site that leads to user failure, user frustration, or increased support costs.
Folksonomies, a new user-driven approach to organizing information, may help alleviate some of the challenges of taxonomies. Sites with folksonomies include two basic capabilities: they let users add “tags” to information and they create navigational links out of those tags to help users find and organize that information later.
Siehe auch:
Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content
