“A folksonomy is a user-generated system of classifying and organizing online content into different categories. The best example of a folksonomy when using Facebook is a hashtag, hashtags are created by members of Facebook and within the hashtag contains relevant subject matter.”— Hannah Lynn, medium.com
“Folksonomy is a blend of keywords 'folk' and 'taxonomy', and stands for a lightweight conceptual structure which is built by a broad community or people in order to categorize various types of Web resource by collaborative social tagging.”— Suk-Hyung Hwang, paper.ijcsns.org