Collaborative tagging as distributed cognition [chapter]

Luc Steels
2008 Benjamins Current Topics  
The paper discusses recent developments in web technologies based on collaborative tagging. This approach is seen as a tremendously powerful way to coordinate the ontologies and views of a large number of individuals, thus constituting the most successful tool for distributed cognition so far.
doi:10.1075/bct.16.08ste fatcat:ntgu6j6esbaldmadxjtc4clqpu