Electronics Records Management requires methods and structure for classifying records and content. A folksonomy of user tags won't really do the job - says Susan Cisco in her blog - as she quotes from Tom Reamy in Folksonomy Folktales 2010 (KMWorld Dec 2010)
Reamy identifies a few myths:
+ Folksonomies are examples of the wisdom of crowds
+ Folksonomies are building bottom-up classification systems
+ Folksomomies are Working
+ Metadata works best when it is free – in the realm of Everyman
Susan Cisco adds from her experience - "My observation of folksonomy use at the enterprise level is that it hasn’t been very successful. Isn’t that what happens when organizations allow end users to organize and maintain records and information without management controls or naming conventions?"
Her recommendation: "A simple taxonomy appears to be a more reliable approach to tagging electronic records."
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