: How I quantify the success of a folksonomy? CONCEPTS: completeness, accuracy, consistency, stability, relevancy SEMI-RELATE-SUBJECTS: taxonomy, data quality, indexes, keywords, SEO, SEM FORMULAS: ?

@Yeniel560

From Wikipedia, since I hadn't heard that term before:


A folksonomy is a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content; this practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging.


"Success" is a very vague term here. Any measure of success depends on what your goals are for your site/application, and what the dataset contains. No-one here can really tell you how to measure success.

Furthermore, all the concepts you provide are incredibly difficult to measure in the first place. Take "completeness", for example: do you know the size of a complete set, or is there even a concept of a complete set?

Perhaps providing more information about your site or its data would help us answer, but to be honest I think only you can decide what is successful and how to measure it.

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