Folksonomies: tidying up tags?

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GUY Marieke, TONKIN Emma. Folksonomies: tidying up tags?. D-Lib Magazine [on line]. 2006, vol. 12, n°1. Available at: <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/guy/01guy.html> (consulted on February 13, 2007)

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DC Title : Folksonomies: tidying up tags?

DC Creator : GUY Marieke, TONKIN Emma

DC Subject : Information organization, folksonomy-based service, tag, tag literacy

DC Description.tableOfContent :

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The folksonomic flaw
• 3. User-created tags

• Power laws and tag distribution
• Tag popularity

• 4. Improving tag literacy

• Educating users
• Tagging observed
• Methods for improving tags
• Smart systems

• 5. Putting it all into place
• 6. Conclusions
• Appendix 1: methodology
• References

DC Publisher : D-Lib Magazine

DC Contributor :

DC Date : 2006-01

DC Date.modified : 2006-01-17

DC Type : Text

DC Format : Text/html

DC Identifier : http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/guy/01guy.html

DC Source :

DC Language : En

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DC Rights : Copyright © 2006 Marieke Guy and Emma Tonkin

Folksonomies – Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata

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MATHES, Adam. Folksonomies: cooperative classification and communication through shared metadata [on line]. Available at: <http://adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html> (consulted on January 25, 2007)

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DC Title : Folksonomies: cooperative classification and communication through shared metadata

DC Creator : MATHES, Adam

DC Subject : Collaborative classification, folksonomy-based service, information organization, metadata, shared information, tag

DC Description.tableOfContents :

• The creation of metadata: professionals, content creators, users
• Tagging content in Del.icio.us and Flickr
• From tags to folksonomy
• Limitations
• Strengths
• Why folksonomies work
• Barriers to entry, cognitive costs
• Feedback and asymmetric communication
• Individual and community aspects
• Unanticipated uses
• Areas for further research
• Quantitative tag analysis
• Qualitative user analysis
• Applicability to other systems
• Conclusion
• References

DC Publisher : MATHES, Adam

DC Contributor :

DC Date : 2004-12

DC Type : Text

DC Format : Text/html

DC Identifier : http://adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html

DC Source :

DC Language : En

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DC Coverage :

DC Rights : ©2004 adam mathes