Library Cataloging
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 of tags applied.
- Book Covers
The other day I asked for suggestions about where to get book covers to include in the cataog. One comment suggest BookChaser.com.This is an experimental tool that lets people compare what book covers are available through different APIs. It uses four...
- 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...
- 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...
- Librarything
LibraryThing has added RSS feeds. We should take a look at this tool and see what it tells us about what we could be doing. Folks like to share the books they are reading. Maybe we have been so concerned with privacy that we have neglected the social...
- 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...
Library Cataloging
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 of tags applied.
This is an extensive post, revealing the results of a statistical comparison between Amazon and LibraryThing tags, and exploring why tagging has turned out relatively poorly for Amazon. I end by making concrete recommendations for ecommerce sites interested in making tagging work.Tagging
- Book Covers
The other day I asked for suggestions about where to get book covers to include in the cataog. One comment suggest BookChaser.com.This is an experimental tool that lets people compare what book covers are available through different APIs. It uses four...
- 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...
- 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...
- Librarything
LibraryThing has added RSS feeds. We should take a look at this tool and see what it tells us about what we could be doing. Folks like to share the books they are reading. Maybe we have been so concerned with privacy that we have neglected the social...
- 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...