Entries from RSS4Lib tagged with 'tagging'
User-Generated Content and Social Discovery in the Academic Library Catalogue: Findings from User Research -- Access 2008
Martha Whitehead, Queens University Steve Toub, BiblioCommons The problem is "discovery" -- getting answers to questions that you don't know how to ask. In other words, finding things you don't know about. Not just updating the catalog. They were dissatisfied...
Tagging's Long Tail
Tagging systems offer a fascinating opportunity to study how people tag and what collective wisdom can be generated from the masses. Tim Spalding, in his a recent post at Thingology, The Long Tail of Ann Coulter, observes that tag use...
Libraries in Facebook
Facebook has a new tool, Lexicon, that "looks at the usage of words and phrases on profile, group and event Walls." Similar to Google's Zeitgeist, Facebook's Lexicon shows how much people are talking about something. So I tried a Lexicon...
CIL2008: User-Generated Content
Roy Tennant Not an overview of ways users are creating content. If you want that, go buy Social Software in Libraries by Meredith Farkas. Focus will be on user-generated content on library managed sites. Roy's tenets for user-generated content: More...
Tagging and Taggers
A recent research paper, "Can Social Bookmarking Improve Web Search?" by Paul Heymann, Georgia Koutrika, and Hector Garcia-Molina, draws numerous interesting conclusions about the effect of taggers and tagging on findability. The authors used del.icio.us as the source for tags....
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