本詞彙乃新造的字，其意義隨時間而改變。目前本字一般指透過「社會性標記」(social tagging)所編輯之詞彙與名稱（稱為分類標籤）其代表的概念集合。大眾分類法未必是眾人合作努力的結果，但通常是個人對於內容所作的個人分類的匯集。大眾分類法通常無階層式結構，對某一概念一般並無偏好詞彙，甚至可能不會將同義字串組在一起。由於大眾分類法並非由專家彙編，故被認為不具權威性。再者，按此字之定義，專業的索引編輯者亦不會將其應用在文件上。由於網際網路的創造者及使用者社群龐大且紛雜，不可能以一致的方式自主增添後設資料(metadata)，因此大眾分類法常具有非標準化、特異分類之特色。儘管大眾分類法並不支援資料搜尋和其他類型的瀏覽，亦不支援專業者所應用之控制詞彙(controlled vocabularies)的分類標籤，但在某些情況下十分有用，包括無法使用控制分類時，或個人依其偏好對內容加以分類、以供個人使用時。本詞彙過去係指涉及網際網路上檢索資訊的方法，而非指產生之術語或分類。

大眾分類法(P,,U,繁體中文-偏好,D,,)
群眾分類法(,U,繁體中文-非偏好,UF,U,U)
俗民分類法(,U,繁體中文-非偏好,UF,U,U)
ta chung fen lei fa (P,,U,韋氏拼音-偏好,UF,U,U)
dà zhòng fēn lèi fǎ (P,,U,漢語拼音-偏好,UF,U,U)
da zhong fen lei fa (P,,U,漢語拼音(無聲調)-偏好,UF,U,U)
folksonomies(P,,U,英文-偏好,D,U,PN)
folksonomy(,U,英文-非偏好,AD,U,SN)
folksonomieën(P,,U,荷蘭語-偏好,D,U,U)

藝術與建築詞典根目錄
....物件層面
........視覺及語言傳達
............資訊形式 (層級名)
................<資訊形式 (先導詞)>
....................<文件類型>
........................<依形式區分之文件類型>
............................<電子文件>
................................大眾分類法

藝術與建築詞典根目錄
....關聯概念層面
........關聯概念
............<文化與相關概念>
................<文化相關概念>
....................詞彙
........................大眾分類法

distinguished from....

控制詞彙

英文....	A neologism, the meaning of which is changing over time. Currently, it typically refers to assemblages of concepts represented by terms and names (called tags) that are compiled through social tagging. They are not necessarily the result of a collaborative effort, but are usually the compilation of personal tagging of content by individuals. Folksonomies are typically without hierarchical structure, generally have no preferred term for a concept, and may not even cluster synonyms. They are not considered authoritative because they are not compiled by experts. Furthermore, they are by definition not applied to documents by professional indexers. Given that it is impossible for the large and varied community of Internet creators and users to independently add metadata in a consistent manner, folksonomies are generally characterized by non-standard, idiosyncratic tagging. Although they do not support searching and other types of browsing as well as tags from controlled vocabularies applied by professionals, folksonomies are useful in certain situations, including where controlled tagging is not possible or where individuals prefer to tag content for their own use. The term formerly referred to the internet-based information retrieval methodologies involved rather than the resulting terminology or tagging.
荷蘭語....	Informatieverzamelmethodieken op internetbasis, bestaande uit gezamenlijk gegenereerde labels voor het categoriseren van webcontent, met inbegrip van webpagina's, weblinks en online-foto's. Het verschil met een taxonomie is dat de schrijvers van een folksonomie meestal incidentele contentgebruikers zijn en geen professionele indexontwikkelaars die standaardprotocollen en gestandaardiseerde gereguleerde terminologie hanteren; folksonomieën maken geen deel uit van onderliggende World Wide Web-protocollen. Aangezien het binnen een grote gevarieerde gemeenschap van internetbouwers en -gebruikers onmogelijk is om op consequente en onafhankelijke wijze metadata toe te voegen, worden folksonomieën meestal gekenmerkt door een individueel bepaalde, niet standaardconforme wijze van tagging, hetgeen afbreuk doet aan de efficiëntie en nauwkeurigheid bij het ophalen van informatie.

大眾分類法............	[AS-Academia Sinica]
.................	國立臺灣科技大學資訊工程系碩士論文 (2013年) November 3, 2013
群眾分類法............	[AS-Academia Sinica]
.................	國立交通大學資訊科學與工程研究所碩士論文 (2012年) November 3, 2013
folksonomies............	[VP]
.................	Guy and Tonkin, Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags (2006) accessed 30 August 2006
.................	Mathes, Folksonomies: Cooperative Classification (2004) accessed 31 August 2006
.................	Baca, Introduction to Metadata (2008) glossary
folksonomy............	[VP]
.................	Guy and Tonkin, Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags (2006) accessed 30 August 2006
.................	Golder and Huberman, Collaborative Tagging Systems (2006) accessed 31 August 2006
.................	Mathes, Folksonomies: Cooperative Classification (2004) accessed 31 August 2006
folksonomieën............	[Bureau AAT]
.................	AAT-Ned (1994-)
Subject:............	[Bureau AAT]
.................	Bureau AAT, RKD

Getty AAT: 300266743 Getty AAT: http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATFullDisplay?find=costume&logic=AND¬e=&subjectid=300266743
聯合目錄： 大眾分類法 、群眾分類法 、俗民分類法 、ta chung fen lei fa 、dà zhòng fēn lèi fǎ 、da zhong fen lei fa 、folksonomies 、folksonomy 、folksonomieën