Week Three Ontologies and Folksonomies

 This week the topic is discussed Folksonomies and Ontologies, and their impact on social media.
   They play an important role in social media.   How can they play an important role in connecting information?   

My experience with folksonomies is more advanced than my experience with ontologies.  Folksonomies are the use of words to connect posts in social media together.  An example would be using a hashtag to make posts more searchable.    I have often used them her to let both the publicist and author know that I have posted a review of the book or the guest post that has been written by the author is available. 

Ontologies are the study of how two items connect using a common language.  An example of this blog would be using one of my reviews that I have also posted on Amazon to help someone decide whether or not that person would want to purchase a book.  Shoppers can also grade the reviewer by how effective their review is. 

I feel that both concepts folksonomies and  Ontologies can play important role in social media and connecting libraries.   These concepts could improve the reach and help build community for libraries.   I read an article last fall on a study done by the University of Montana State on how to build community with libraries.   They did both formal tweets and informal tweets.  The these tweets used folksonomies and could be studied for their ontologies.   The informal tweets were more engaging than formal tweets.   The way the words connected help to engage other students and the same could be said for patrons at a public library.