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Presentation of my PhD-project on a course in scientific method.
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Folksonomies: When the user is an information architect
Charles Seger, cand. Scient. Bibl.
Ph.d.-student @ Royal School of Library and Information ScienceResearch Program: Information interaction and Information Architecture
Agenda
• Background for my project• Problems / Methods • Example: Use of a folksonomy• Webometrics and Tagometrics• Questions to the audience • References
Background
• Vast Increase in use and production of online information– Need for new methods and tools for
organizing
• 28% of all online Americans have tagged content on the Internet (Rainie, 2007)
FOLK SONOMY
Aalborg
PresentationCourse
CharlesResearch? Folksonomy
methodology
FOLKSONOMY
Main purpose
• Explore and charter user indexing• Explore collaborative tagging as part
of users information behaviour
Learned?
Questions
• How can users IB behaviour be investigated just by registration of the results of their actions?
• How can this setup be combined with a more qualitative approach?
Referencesdel.icio.us
URL: http://del.icio.us/
Lego Digital Design®
http://ldd.lego.com/
Rainie, L. (2007) 28% of Online Americans Have Used the Internet to Tag Content. Pew Internet & American Life Project. Reports: Online activities & pursuits. Tagging. January 31.URL: http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Tagging.pdf
Folksonomies as a synergy
Tag
User
Information Object