Library Cataloging
Folksonomies Tidying up Tags? by Marieke Guy and Emma Tonkin appears in the latest D-Lib magazine.
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Gary D. Price over at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker brought some news items to my attention. Canadiana Authorities searches over 660,000 name, title and name/title authority records derived from the AMICUS database. Helping online communities to semantically...
- Folksonomies And Finding
Survival of the fittest tag: Folksonomies, findability, and the evolution of information organization by Alexis Wichowski appears in the latest First Monday.Folksonomies have emerged as a means to create order in a rapidly expanding information environment...
- Metadata Paper
Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy by Elaine Peterson appears in the latest D-Lib Magazine.A traditional classification scheme based on Aristotelian categories yields search results that are more exact. Traditional cataloging...
- 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...
- Free Tagging Paper
The paper The New School of Ontologies by Nick Mote has some problems. He seems to be confused about different types of controlled vocabularies. He states "Instead of requiring that the contributor adapt to the ontology, folksonomies adapt the ontology...
Library Cataloging
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 the core quality that makes folksonomy tagging so useful. We begin by looking at the issue of "sloppy tags", a problem to which critics of folksonomies are keen to allude, and ask if there are ways the folksonomy community could offset such problems and create systems that are conducive to searching, sorting and classifying. We then go on to question this "tidying up" approach and its underlying assumptions, highlighting issues surrounding removal of low-quality, redundant or nonsense metadata, and the potential risks of tidying too neatly and thereby losing the very openness that has made folksonomies so popular.Folksonomies
- Older News Items
Gary D. Price over at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker brought some news items to my attention. Canadiana Authorities searches over 660,000 name, title and name/title authority records derived from the AMICUS database. Helping online communities to semantically...
- Folksonomies And Finding
Survival of the fittest tag: Folksonomies, findability, and the evolution of information organization by Alexis Wichowski appears in the latest First Monday.Folksonomies have emerged as a means to create order in a rapidly expanding information environment...
- Metadata Paper
Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy by Elaine Peterson appears in the latest D-Lib Magazine.A traditional classification scheme based on Aristotelian categories yields search results that are more exact. Traditional cataloging...
- 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...
- Free Tagging Paper
The paper The New School of Ontologies by Nick Mote has some problems. He seems to be confused about different types of controlled vocabularies. He states "Instead of requiring that the contributor adapt to the ontology, folksonomies adapt the ontology...