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Folksonomies

The October/November 2007 issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology includes a special section on Folksonomies.

Introduction: Folksonomies and Image Tagging: Seeing the Future? by Diane Neal, Guest Editor
Why Are They Tagging, and Why Do We Want Them To? by P. Jason Morrison
Trouble in Paradise: Conflict Management and Resolution in Social Classification Environments by Chris Landbeck
Image Indexing: How Can I Find a Nice Pair of Italian Shoes? by Elaine Ménard
Flickr Image Tagging: Patterns Made Visible by Joan Beaudoin

Seen on Christina's LIS Rant.

- Dublin Core And Social Tagging
A new Dublin Core Metadata Initiative group, the DCMI Social Tagging Community.The DCMI Social Tagging Community is for those who are interested in investigating how the increasingly common practice of informally tagging resources, known as a process...

- Tagging Podcast
This has already been covered in many places, but just in case you missed it, the new Takling with Talis podcast discusses tagging.The Library 2.0 Folksonomy Gang In this Library 2.0 Gang discussion, members talk about folksonomies and the role of user-generated...

- Folksonomies
Folksonomies Tidying up Tags? by Marieke Guy and Emma Tonkin appears in the latest D-Lib magazine.In this article we look at what makes folksonomies work. We agree with the premise that tags are no replacement for formal systems, but we see this as being...

- Free Tagging
I've added a tool to the side bar that allows free tagging. Currently it is only for the page. When I get some free time I'll see if I can tweak the code a bit so that it can be used for each post.I've been adding tags for each post in Technorati...

- Folksonomies Review
A good review posting about social bookmarking and free tagging with plenty of links to more information is at Library Clips. Folksonomies...

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