File tagging folks+ taxonomy= folksonomy.
Recently I came across a scenario where individual files need to be tagged by multiple people. So that tag based routing or audience targeting can be done. My initial idea was to add taxonomy to the file.
Using managed metadata column.
But here arise a problem that it is difficult to track that who tagged. The Alternative was to take out the tagging mechanism from the content, but still use the folksonomy taxonomy feature extent to a different list.
The approach is as follows:
Create a separate list with columns like file URI, tag, user who tagged it. There should be a mechanism to make the folksonomy to add to the term store on identification of new term.my idea here is to travers e the existing taxonomy tree with a like search, or similar. And add valid terms, So added folksonomy will be emerged as taxonomy and help in the file tagging and classification.
Another issue was how to do automatic file tagging, this means by reading the content how a document can be tagged. This can be achieved to an extent only; the base to start with this is the term store management only. By traversing the terms in the hierarchy and hitting no of counts of the same in the file a file can be given an automatic tag. But this reading process may end up with deterministic result too.
