Folksonomist

In a tweet, Steve Wheeler (aka @timbuckteeth) refers to a Folksonomist as being "One who organises information in ways that make sense to his/her own community of practice or interest."
I have to take issue with this - if someone is organising information in ways that make sense to a community, then the information is not folksonomological.  To qualify as folksonomological, the body of knowledge is contributed by a number of independant sources, albeit about and around a common theme, or area of cognitive centrality.  A folksonomy loses its qualities as a folksonomy once you have someone 'organising' it, and will quickly become a taxonomy.  A folksonomist could be someone who nurtures the community to contribute to the folksonomy. 
I think someone who organises information in ways that make sense to the community of practice or interest, maybe a folksonomy harvester, or possibly a folksotaxonomist.

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