These native ##openweb activism based projects have been around for the last ten years. In the reboot of ##Indymedia and the development of the Open Media Network (#OMN), the challenge of federating metadata flows sits at the heart of how people organize, distribute, and consume media in a decentralized, grassroots-driven native path. We’re navigating the space between ##folksonomy (bottom-up, organic tagging) and categories (top-down, structured organization). Each approach offers advantages, but bridging them creatively is key to an effective and open media landscape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txCLtKpDwNE

Folksonomy vs. Categories:

##Folksonomy is a people and community -driven method of tagging content, allowing communities to organically build a taxonomy that reflects their interests and needs. It’s flexible, dynamic, and rooted in grassroots culture.
* Advantage: Captures the diversity and fluidity of bottom-up organizing.
* Disadvantage: Can be messy, inconsistent, and hard to scale across diverse instances.

##Categories are a structured, hierarchical way of organizing information, providing clarity and consistency.
* Advantage: Easier to search, sort, and maintain across larger networks.
* Disadvantage: Top-down imposition is restrictive and alienate grassroots contributors.

The OMN path: Combining Folksonomy with Categories

The ##OMN and the Indymedia reboot are grounded in bottom-up grassroots projects, so we obviously start with a folksonomy approach. However, we recognize there’s some practical use for categories as well. Here’s a draft proposal for how to bridge the divide:

The Philosophy: “Transparency is the New Objectivity”

The OMN is rooted in the philosophy of transparency over objectivity. The flows of metadata, whether from folksonomy or categories, are transparent for to see, remix, and improve upon. This radical openness, guided by the #4opens, ensures that the system remains flexible, accessible, and grounded in the needs of people not corporations. Truth bubbles up from this, lies exist, but they are pushed to their own spaces, which people can choose to ignore.

Conclusion: Building the Age of Creative Anarchy

On a positive, we could say that the 19th century was the age of capitalism, the 20th century was the age of social democracy, and the 21st century could be shaping up to be the age of creative anarchy. In this era, the challenge is to embrace diversity while building tools that help us collaborate across differences. The OMN is a practical tool to move media objects and metadata around in a way that encourages creativity, transparency, and bottom-up control, all while allowing some degree of organization through category flows. This is a positive future for media, that is native to our current openweb reboot as our ##fashernista like to call this ##opensocialweb but the problem it is what we are doing is not social media… bad choice of naming.

The future is messy, but we can compost this mess into a thriving, decentralized media path. Let’s start with trust, folksonomy, and the ##openweb, and grow from there ##KISS who is coding this, who is funding this, help needed please as I don’t have the focus to see this through, it needs crew and funding, that might be you.

https://hamishcampbell.com/why-we-need-the-open-media-network-omn/

https://hamishcampbell.com/federating-metadata-flows-bridging-folksonomy-and-categories-for-the-omn/

#4opens #Categories #fashernista #folksonomy #indymedia #KISS #OMN #opensocialweb #openweb

Decided to print a poster from the Pocket article tag co-occurrence network I made a couple of years ago, as it's a pretty good representation of my interests, and my brain too. Forgotten how cool Gephi is (once you remember what you are doing!)

#sna #datascience #folksonomy #dataviz

This is CogDogBlogged: "Maximum Tags: Can You Go 75 TPP?"

Tag, we are it. I love me free form tagging. A bit before there were #hashtags there was the Web2.0 frenzy of folksonomy, and wealth that Wikipedia is, leads me to the birth of a term used quite widely.

It rounds counter to the rigidity and forced rules of Official Metadata, in that people, groups, mobs, make free form organizational classifications. It’s at play here on this blog, and […]

https://cogdogblog.com/2024/09/maximum-tags/

#cogdogblog #dailycreates #ds106 #flickr #folksonomy #hashtags #tagging

Computers are great for sorting fir searching, and some types of storage.

A physical item could have more than 2 pages of Metadata. Taxonomies, folksonomies, with tagging and keywords and more, oh my!

But which do you use to actually find the physical object. The location, where it's located?

And what if you use that one yourself, but someone else chooses something different?

#z_lib #z_lib_cataloging #Folksonomy #Taxonomy #Storage

One of my holy grail software quests is a community tagging (aka #folksonomy) plugin for #WordPress. The idea is that users/readers could add #tags to posts and/or images.

When WordPress was very young, there were several #CommunityTagging plugins in the WordPress plugins directory. Only one remains, long unmaintained and broken. https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-folksonomy/#description

If you know a #plugin for this, please sing out!

Boosts very welcome in hope of getting this seen by as many Wordpress mavens as possible.