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Metadata or at Least Tagging
Metadata: Practical, Painless, Profitable by Christine Connors appears in the latest
ASIS&T Bulletin.
Incrementally add value with metadata-based services. Start small, aim at high-value content. Add Suggested Sites or Suggested People to search engine results pages. Get forward thinking website developers to use RDF/A or Microformats to tag sections of their content.
Most of the article deals with tagging by employees in a business setting.
Metadata
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Tagging At Microsoft
Now Microsoft is doing tagging.Microsoft.com Tagspace is all about giving you, the consumer of content on Microsoft.com and associated sites, the power to identify, define, catalogue, and share what interests you, in ways that make sense to you.This beta...
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Metadata Schema Registry
A Metadata Schema Registry as a Tool to Enhance Metadata Interoperability by Mitsuharu Nagamori and Shigeo Sugimoto appears in the latest issue of TCDL Bulletin.Interoperability is one of the most crucial issues for the metadata and digital library communities....
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Metadata
'Marketing' with Metadata - How Metadata Can Increase Exposure and Visibility of Online Content by M. Moffat describes the benefits of having metadata visible on your site.There are many advantages of exposing metadata. If you want people to be...
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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...
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Metadata
Experiences of Educators Using a Portal of Aggregated Metadata by Sarah L. Shreeves and Christine M. Kirkham appears in Journal of Digital Information v. 5, no. 3.The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting...
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