Please post all your links and articles re: social tagging in the comments to this post. If you've already posted something about social tagging, please delete your post and repost the text and links in the comments here. Let's keep all our links in one place. :)
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Social Bookmarking, Folksonomies, and Web 2.0 Tools by Laura Gordon-Murnane
This article is a really good overview of social tagging and folksonomies, and describes some of the tools used for social tagging. It's a bit long, but pretty thorough.
The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging by Ellyssa Kroski
This is a briefer, but still valuable, overview of social tagging, with a nice breakdown of the pros and cons of social tagging.
Collaborative Tagging, Folksonomies, Distributed Classification or Ethnoclassification: A Literature Review by Edith Speller
I haven't had a chance to go over this very thoroughly, but I think it could be a good resource.
Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags? by Marieke Guy and Emma Tonkin
Here's another article that addresses some of what Mathes brought up in his article. It examines some of the flaws in social tagging and suggests some solutions.
Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags by Clay Shirky
A fun, informal look at some issues with traditional controlled vocabularies and ways social tagging can address them. You may also want to look at Clay Shirky's Viewpoints are Overrated by Peter Merholz for some rebuttal.
Dye, J. (2006). Folksonomy: A game of high-tech (and high-stakes) tag. EContent, 29(3), 38-43.
Easy, basic, and professional introduction to the idea of tagging, with obligatory tag pun.
West, J. (2007). Subject headings 2.0: Folksonomies and tags. Library Media Connection, 25(7), 58-59.
The great Jessamyn West writes a thoughtful intro to social tagging. Good references, too.
Social Tagging @ Harvard: Part One
Suprisingly watchable (for a video of a guy behind a podium at Harvard) vid of a talk about social tagging.
DLIST
In case you didn't know, DLIST is (according to the website)a "cross-institutional, subject-based, open access digital archive for the Information Sciences, including Archives and Records Management, Library and Information Science, Information Systems, Museum Informatics, and other critical information infrastructures." Some of it is about social tagging. Seems like we should look here for recent articles that aren't just explaining folksonomies over and over again.
Here's a link to a blog about social tagging, with many links to other people talking about tagging, brought to you in part by the guy (Thomas Vander Wal) who coined the term "folksonomies". The most recent link as of this post is to a Pew Internet report on tagging. The blog seems like a rich and up-to-date resource, and not just focused on the promise of tagging; scroll down for the link to information about the tagging-skepticism panel proposal for next year's SXSW.
All of these articles are found through the databases that are with Academic Search Elite by way of the library. Sorry I can't put the links up to them I have never used this before.
Snipes, Phyllis R. (2007, April/May). Folksonomy vs. Minnie Earl and Melville. Library Media Connection, 54- 55.
This is an article that gives the good and the bad of using folksonomies in schools to do projects
Dye, Jessica. (2007, Jan/Feb). Collaboration 2.0. EContent, 32-36.
This article goes into what Web 2.0 is and how it impacts the work environments of the corporate office world.
Bolan, Kimberly, Canada, Meg, & Cullin, Rob. (2007, Winter). Web, Library, and Teen Services 2.0. YALS, 40-43.
I haven't finished this article yet but I believe it is on the 2.0 phenomenon that is happening on the web and in the library. In the library teen services have come to include gaming, podcasting, and social networking. When i finish I will repost this one.
West, Jassamyn. (2007, April/May). Subject Headings 2.0: Folksonomies and Tags. Library Media Connection, 58-59.
This was my user-metadata article but I think it should go her due to the fact that it talks more about tagging and the folksonomies that social tagging happens at.
First, a copy of my first post to bring everything on Social Tagging together in one spot:
"To get the ball rolling on social tagging, here is the link to an article by Mathes on Folksomies, my comments tomorrow:
http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html
I found this in a google search; it appears to be material from Mathes's site posted for an LIS course at UI-UC in December 2004. Enjoy.
Posted by Jeff Gibbens at 2:16 PM"
Other articles to add to the bibliography:
Golder, S. A., and Huberman, B. A. (2006). Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems. Journal of Information Science 32 (2), 198-208.
http://jis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/32/2/198
Matusiak, K. K. (2006). Towards user-centered indexing in digital image collections. OCLC Systems & Services: international digital library perspectives 22 (4), 283-298.
Stay tuned....
Two more articles found by searching on the term Social Tagging:
For Francophones:
Mingam, M. (2005). Rameau[:] bilan, perspectives. Bulletin des biobliotheques de France 50 (5), 38-47. Full text HTML or PDF available from WilsonWeb.
Regarding public library applications:
Spiteri, L. F. The use of folksonomies in public library cataalogues. The serials librarian 51 (2), 75-89.
Some quick comments, prior to evaluation:
Golder and Huberman have already turned up in our Metadata vis-a-vis users discussion. They devised some comparisons based on usage numbers from various social tagging sites.
Mathes's main distinction is between cataloging, which users of Social Tagging believe themselves to be doing, and categorization, which is what he thinks they are really doing. I think he's right. Two more articles from his references:
Greenberg, J., Pattuelli, M., Parsia, B., and Robertson, W. D. (2001). Author-generated Dublin core metadata for web resources: a baseline study in an organization. Journal of digital information 2 (2), article 78.
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v02/i02/Greenberg/
Smith, G. (2004). Atomiq: folksonomy: social classification.
http://atomiq.org/archives/2004/08/folksonomy_social_classification.html
Matusiak is a researcher from the UW-Milwaukee libraries. The full text of her article is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1065-075X.htm
The article by Spiteri is derived from a conference in 2005, the Canadian Metadata Forum.
I'm four articles short on this topic, so here they are:
Trant, J. (2006). Social classification and folksonomy in art museums: early data from the steve.museum tagger prototype. Paper presented at the 17th SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, November 4, 2006.
An interesting experiment where art museums invited social tagging of items in their collections. This combines folksonomy with traditional cataloging like the Ann Arbor libary example, and serves as a way to gather subject classifications for images in addition to the more methodical approach described in the Shatford article.
Feinberg, M. (2006). An examination of authority in social classification systems. Paper presented at the 17th SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, November 4, 2006.
Another paper from the same workshop. Notes some problems with tagging, including the idea that tags one person assigns may not always be current for that person or applicable for others.
Vander Wal, T. (2005). Explaining and showing broad and narrow folksonomies. Retrieved June 13, 2007 from http://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1635
The inventor of the term "folksonomy" describes what he sees as the difference between "broad folksonomies" (like del.icio.us) and "narrow folksonomies" (such as flickr).
Wu, X., Zhang, L., and Yu, Y. (2006). Exploring social annotations for the semantic web. Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web.
If the phrase "semantic web" doesn't cause your head to explode at this point, the math in this paper will. It describes an experiment in analyzing statistics from user tagging to discover semantic relationships.
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