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- 1. Tagging/Folksonomies Think Tank Session April 8, 2008
- 2. What are tags?
- Keywords/descriptors to describe digital objects
- Applied by users of the content
- Keyword or category label. Tags help you find photos which have
something in common. (Flickrs explanation of tags)
- Del.icio.us ' explanation of tagging
- 3. What is a folksonomy?
- Collaboratively creating and managing tags
- Freely chosen keywords used instead of controlled
vocabulary
- Folksonomy is most notably contrasted with a taxonomy - done by
users, not professionals.
- 4. Tagging vs. folksonomy
- Tags are the descriptors applied to objects
- Folksonomies are the collections of descriptors (metadata)
created by users and applied to objects
- 5. This photo was given the tags house building colors, along
with others
- 6.
- The tags for that image are part of a folksonomy
- 7. Advantages of tagging/folksonomies
- Simple to use - no complex structure to learn
- Lower cost of categorization
- Relevance - user's own terms.
- Support serendipitious form of browsing.
- Easy to tag any object - photo, document, bookmark
- Better than no tags at all.
- 8. Disadvantages
- Dont work well for finding
- No structure or conceptual relationships
- Personal tags or popularity tags
- Most people cant tag very well
- Errors, misspellings, etc.
- 9. Tags vs. subject headings
- LibraryThing's explanation of tags and subject headings
- An academic take on LibraryThing tags
- 10. Lets do some tagging
- 11. What tags did you give the photo?
- 12.
- 13. What can we do with tags?
- 14. Other sites using tagging
- 15. Tag Clouds Find this at Geeksugar
- 16. OCLC's TagCloud Builder
- 17. Firefox add-on
- 18.
- 19.
- Steve - Social Tagging of Art Museum Collections
- 20. Library applications of tagging
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- Ann Arbor District Library tagging
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- LibraryThing for Libraries
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- Teen Web - Nashville Public Library
- 21. More Library applications
- lib.rario.us - social media cataloging
- 22. Resources
- Pew Internet Life Project: Report on Tagging
- Structure and form of folksonomy tags: The road to the public
library catalogue
- When tags work and when they don't: Amazon and
LibraryThing
- 23. More resources
- The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging
- Becoming a tagging kung-fu master
- Picking Up Where Search Leaves Off
- The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging,
and Scholarship in Research Libraries
- 24. And just a few more
- Cataloging and You: Measuring the Efficacy of a Folksonomy for
Subject Analysis
- And related blog post - An academic take on LibraryThing
tags