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Thomas Vander Wal is an information architect best known for coining the term "folksonomy
Folksonomy

Folksonomy is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing Tag to annotate and categorization Content . Folksonomy describes the bottom-up classification systems that emerge from social tagging....
". He is also known for initiating the term "infocloud". His work has primarily been to do with the Web
Web

Web may refer to:...
 and with information
Information

Information as a Conveyed concept has a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control system, data, form, instruction, knowledge, Meaning , stimulation, pattern, perception, and knowledge representation....
 design
Design

Design is used both as a noun and a verb. The term is often tied to the various applied arts and engineering . As a verb, "to design" refers to the process of originating and planning for a product, structure, system, or component with intention....
 and structure
Structure

Structure is a fundamental and sometimes intangible notion covering the recognition, observation, nature , and stability of patterns and relationships of entities....
.

He has worked for the INDUS Corporation in Bethesda, Maryland
Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda is a census designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, built in 1820 and rebuilt in 1850, which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda....
, is a member of the Founding Leadership Council for , and the Steering Committee for the Web Standards Project
Web Standards Project

The Web Standards Project is a group of professional web developers dedicated to disseminating and encouraging the use of the web standards recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium, along with other groups and standards bodies....
 (WaSP).






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Thomas Vander Wal is an information architect best known for coining the term "folksonomy
Folksonomy

Folksonomy is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing Tag to annotate and categorization Content . Folksonomy describes the bottom-up classification systems that emerge from social tagging....
". He is also known for initiating the term "infocloud". His work has primarily been to do with the Web
Web

Web may refer to:...
 and with information
Information

Information as a Conveyed concept has a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control system, data, form, instruction, knowledge, Meaning , stimulation, pattern, perception, and knowledge representation....
 design
Design

Design is used both as a noun and a verb. The term is often tied to the various applied arts and engineering . As a verb, "to design" refers to the process of originating and planning for a product, structure, system, or component with intention....
 and structure
Structure

Structure is a fundamental and sometimes intangible notion covering the recognition, observation, nature , and stability of patterns and relationships of entities....
.

He has worked for the INDUS Corporation in Bethesda, Maryland
Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda is a census designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, just northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, built in 1820 and rebuilt in 1850, which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda....
, is a member of the Founding Leadership Council for , and the Steering Committee for the Web Standards Project
Web Standards Project

The Web Standards Project is a group of professional web developers dedicated to disseminating and encouraging the use of the web standards recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium, along with other groups and standards bodies....
 (WaSP). He is also the Alumni Tech Lead for Boxes and Arrows magazine.

He spoke at the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies

The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies is the trade association of alternative weekly newspapers in North America. AAN provides services to a large number of generally liberal or progressive weekly newspapers across the United States and in Canada....
 Web convention in January 2008.

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