Software for Folksonomies

What open-source software exist to enable communities to develop folksonomies based on the effectiveness of a given community member's performance relative to the greater community?

For example of performance in taxonomy skills include indexing, semantic fitness, deduplication, synonym assignment, etc.

By greater community, I mean how a user performance in rates against other users of the system that actively create, edit, and/or delete tags.

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• Trevor Owens: This question is a bit unclear. What do you mean by a given community member's performance? Do you mean their accuracy in relation to identifying the same tags? Also, what do you mean by the greater community, do you mean other users of the system?
• blunders: @TrevorOwens: Updated the body of the question. If you have any additional questions, let me know. Thanks!

Answer by Trevor Owens

I don't think there are anythings out there that are nearly this sophisticated. The two open source projects I know about are STEVE and the Metadata Games.

Steve is a open source tool that pools tagging into a larger community.

Metadata Games are a few simple open source tools for doing google image labler like games.

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• blunders: +1 @Trevor Owens: Ah, guess I was thinking more along the line of textual taxonomies development. I was unable to quickly find a demo of Steve's curation system, but the public taxonomy to me seem adhoc; though it's very possible I looked at a poor sampling of the sum of it's network. The Google Image Labeler mechanics were pretty solid, though I was able to find a Metadata Games demo and license, I was unable to find the source-code, etc for Metadata Games.

Answer by Jakob

A folksonomy is not created or managed alone but always connected with a collection, so you might be looking for a social tagging system. For instance BibSonomy is Open Source: http://dev.bibsonomy.org/. As the term "folksonomy" is used very fuzzy, you should first use the typology of tagging systems from this paper and decide what kind of system you are looking for. The most important dimension is tag aggregation (set-model or bag model). You might also be looking for a system for managing controlled vocabularies (subject indexes, thesauri, classifications..) by groups of people, but I would not call this folksonomy, as the direct connection to tagged resources is missing.

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