Library Cataloging
The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems by Scott A. Golder and Bernardo A. Huberman looks interesting. As soon as I heard about social tagging I thought it would be a great place to research how folks would apply subject headings. Given that solid research we could then make some adjustments in our application of Sears and LCSH to better fit the thinking of our users. This paper looks like a start in that kind of research.
Folksonomies
- Tagging, Folksonomy
A couple of papers by Jennifer Trant on tagging and folksonomy are available. Studying Social Tagging and Folksonomy: A Review and Framework. Journal of Digital Information 10(1).This paper reviews research into social tagging and folksonomy (as reflected...
- Tagging
@toread and Cool : Subjective, Affective and Associative Factors in Tagging. In Proceedings Canadian Association for Information Science/L'Association canadienne des sciences de l'information (CAIS/ACSI), Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada).This...
- Tagging
I recently finished listening to a podcast about tagging by Talis. Some very good points, well worth listening to.However, I think they did not see beyond the social aspects of tagging. It is true that there has to be a certain mass of tags for them to...
- Tagging
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- Tagging
The Pre-Print: Accepted for and to appear in - Library Review, Vol.55 No.5, pp.XXX Collaborative Tagging as a Knowledge Organisation and Resource Discovery Tool by George Macgregor and Emma McCulloch is now available.There are numerous difficulties with...
Library Cataloging
Collaborative Tagging Paper
The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems by Scott A. Golder and Bernardo A. Huberman looks interesting. As soon as I heard about social tagging I thought it would be a great place to research how folks would apply subject headings. Given that solid research we could then make some adjustments in our application of Sears and LCSH to better fit the thinking of our users. This paper looks like a start in that kind of research.
Collaborative tagging describes the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content. Recently, collaborative tagging has grown in popularity on the web, on sites that allow users to tag bookmarks, photographs and other content. In this paper we analyze the structure of collaborative tagging systems as well as their dynamical aspects. Specifically, we discovered regularities in user activity, tag frequencies, kinds of tags used, bursts of popularity in bookmarking and a remarkable stability in the relative proportions of tags within a given url. We also present a dynamical model of collaborative tagging that predicts these stable patterns and relates them to imitation and shared knowledge.Bold supplied my me. Thanks Library Stuff.
Folksonomies
- Tagging, Folksonomy
A couple of papers by Jennifer Trant on tagging and folksonomy are available. Studying Social Tagging and Folksonomy: A Review and Framework. Journal of Digital Information 10(1).This paper reviews research into social tagging and folksonomy (as reflected...
- Tagging
@toread and Cool : Subjective, Affective and Associative Factors in Tagging. In Proceedings Canadian Association for Information Science/L'Association canadienne des sciences de l'information (CAIS/ACSI), Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada).This...
- Tagging
I recently finished listening to a podcast about tagging by Talis. Some very good points, well worth listening to.However, I think they did not see beyond the social aspects of tagging. It is true that there has to be a certain mass of tags for them to...
- Tagging
...
- Tagging
The Pre-Print: Accepted for and to appear in - Library Review, Vol.55 No.5, pp.XXX Collaborative Tagging as a Knowledge Organisation and Resource Discovery Tool by George Macgregor and Emma McCulloch is now available.There are numerous difficulties with...