Library Cataloging
@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).
- Worldcat Tagging
Tagging is now available in WorldCat. It will be interesting to see how extensive, and so useful, tagging becomes here. You and your users can now keep track of your favorite items in WorldCat through tags?keywords that help you classify or describe an...
- Tagging At Amazon And Librarything
Tim at LibraryThing has a long post, an article would be a better description, comparing tagging at Amazon and LibraryThing. When tags work and when they don't: Amazon and LibraryThing draws some conclusions based on the differences in the number...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
Library Cataloging
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 paper examines the use of non subject related tags in social bookmarking tools. Previous studies of tagging determined that many common tags are not directly subject related but are in fact affective tags dwelling on a user's emotional response to a document or are time and task related tags related to a users current projects or activities. These tags have been analysed to examine their role in the tagging process.While not an academic study, the experience of LibraryThing in cleaning up tags for sale to libraries might be an interesting comparison. The study compares Del.icio.us, Connotea and CiteULike. It would be interesting to see how other tagging sites compare. What is the difference between tagging books, articles, websites and toasters? Is tagging different in different cultures? Do people in Japan tag differently than those in France? How about folk in Economics and Astrophysics? Lots of room for more research here. The next step would be to use the findings to inform our construction of subject headings. The FRBR group working on subjects might have a new body of knowledge to use in their work.
- Worldcat Tagging
Tagging is now available in WorldCat. It will be interesting to see how extensive, and so useful, tagging becomes here. You and your users can now keep track of your favorite items in WorldCat through tags?keywords that help you classify or describe an...
- Tagging At Amazon And Librarything
Tim at LibraryThing has a long post, an article would be a better description, comparing tagging at Amazon and LibraryThing. When tags work and when they don't: Amazon and LibraryThing draws some conclusions based on the differences in the number...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...