Library Cataloging
The Library of Congress has uploaded two collections of photographs to Flickr and invited people to add tags. The sets are 1930s-40s in Color and News in the 1910s. It will be interesting to see how sucessful the tagging project is.These images have the rights statement "no known copyright restrictions", an experimental rights statement for Flickr. Reaction from Flickr users seems to be extremely positive.
- Tags Into Rdfa
LODr looks interesting. It brings tagging, Web 2.0, into the Semantic Web, Web 3.0.LODr is a RDF-based (re-)tagging service, that allows people to weave their Web 2.0 tagged data into the Linked Data Web and provides a dedicated browsing interface. LODr...
- 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 EditorWhy Are...
- 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...
- Tagging
Disambiguation of terms, to some extent, seems possible even in a free-tagging environment. One of the drawbacks often heard about just letting folks put whatever term they lake is that the English language has too many words that are spelt the same but...
- Thoughts About Learning Styles
Last week I acted as a secretary for my wife as she presided over a TMEA lunch meeting. I took a couple of pictures as well as the notes, and later moved a few of the best to flickr. The Texas Music Educators Association has over 10,000 members. They...
Library Cataloging
LOC Tagging Experiment on Flickr
The Library of Congress has uploaded two collections of photographs to Flickr and invited people to add tags. The sets are 1930s-40s in Color and News in the 1910s. It will be interesting to see how sucessful the tagging project is.These images have the rights statement "no known copyright restrictions", an experimental rights statement for Flickr. Reaction from Flickr users seems to be extremely positive.
- Tags Into Rdfa
LODr looks interesting. It brings tagging, Web 2.0, into the Semantic Web, Web 3.0.LODr is a RDF-based (re-)tagging service, that allows people to weave their Web 2.0 tagged data into the Linked Data Web and provides a dedicated browsing interface. LODr...
- 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 EditorWhy Are...
- 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...
- Tagging
Disambiguation of terms, to some extent, seems possible even in a free-tagging environment. One of the drawbacks often heard about just letting folks put whatever term they lake is that the English language has too many words that are spelt the same but...
- Thoughts About Learning Styles
Last week I acted as a secretary for my wife as she presided over a TMEA lunch meeting. I took a couple of pictures as well as the notes, and later moved a few of the best to flickr. The Texas Music Educators Association has over 10,000 members. They...