different between generated vs folksonomy

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generated

Blend of folk +? taxonomy

folksonomy (countable and uncountable, plural folksonomies)

(Internet, uncountable) The spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categories; the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.
(Internet, countable) A user-generated taxonomy.
- 2011, Charles Wankel, Educating Educators with Social Media (page 291)
  We imagined a microlibrary which would be a well organized digital collection of resources, focused specifically on our project, and employing both traditional library cataloging and organization, and the folksonomy made possible by user-generated tagging.

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