Faviki: a controlled vocabulary tagging tool

Yesterday, a cataloger friend of mine mentioned this tagging tool: Faviki, which according to its blog is:

A social bookmarking tool that allows you to tag webpages you want to remember using Wikipedia terms. This means that everybody uses the same names for tags from the world's largest collection of knowledge. [emphasis added]

What Faviki calls "common tagging" is a move away from free tagging to the use of a common vocabulary. Looks like the web is turning us all into catalogers :)

Comments

[Laurel]

Thanks for posting this Chris!

[Christine Schwartz]

Hi Laurel,

Your welcome, I'm going to give Faviki a try. Supposedly it can be used in conjunction with Delicious.

[Laurel]

Chris,
Let me know how it goes - I'm interested to see if it really works.

[Ricardo Saavedra]

Hi Christine, because limited to Faviki Wikipedia definitions, does not allow undefined tags. While this is favorable to maintain control of the vocabulary according to Wikipedia, I think you lose the richness of folksonomies by not allowing add keywords by search as you do the same Zigtag that allows tags to multiple definitions, and choice which one to use with a brief reading of their definitions.

It is interesting to continue exploring these tools.
Best regards.