Folksonomy is a phrase coined by Thomas Vander Wal who is currently a Senior User Experience Designer and Strategist at Design for Context in Bethesda USA (Vander Wal 2014). He runs a blog of his own that ‘notes changes to in the web design development world”. Vander Wal Describes folksonomies as:

“the result of personal free tagging of information and objects (anything with a URL) for ones own retrieval. The tagging is done in a social environment (usually shared and open to others). Folksonomy is created from the act of tagging by the person consuming the information.” (Vander Wal 2014)