Description: This paper reviews some current initiatives, as of early 2005, in providing public link management applications on the Web -- utilities that are often referred ...
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Description: This paper reviews some current initiatives, as of early 2005, in providing public link management applications on the Web -- utilities that are often referred to under the moniker of 'social bookmarking tools'.
Description: Abstract: Experienced web users have strategies for information search and re-access that are not directly supported by web browsers or search engines. We studied how ...
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Description: Abstract: Experienced web users have strategies for information search and re-access that are not directly supported by web browsers or search engines. We studied how prevalent these strategies are and whether even experienced users have problems with searching and reaccessing information.
Description: The "folksonomy" notion is the bloggers' last hope of invention, although its a rewrite of the prebubble "Semantic Web" technology at best. And it too ...
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Description: The "folksonomy" notion is the bloggers' last hope of invention, although its a rewrite of the prebubble "Semantic Web" technology at best. And it too is doomed to failure. The utopianism and idealism that exist in the onlien societies ignore the real problem with tags, metatags, ubertags, folksonomies, and the like.
Description: This paper examines user-generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification.
Description: Structural and semantic differences between classification and categorization are differences that make a difference in the information environment by influencing the functional activities of an ...
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Description: Structural and semantic differences between classification and categorization are differences that make a difference in the information environment by influencing the functional activities of an information system and by contributing to its constitution as an information environment.
Description: The folksonomy presents a new opportunity for users to participate in the creation of classification systems. New applications of this concept will and should be ...
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Description: The folksonomy presents a new opportunity for users to participate in the creation of classification systems. New applications of this concept will and should be developed. At the same time, it is also essential to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of this new tool so that it may be used appropriately and to the greatest advantage
Description: August 2005 Blog entry from a UK librarian (currently employed with a library automation vendor) on the perceived value add found in folksonomies.
Description: Tagging systems are possible only if people are motivated to do more of the work themselves, for individual and/or social reasons...if tagmania continues, it will ...
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Description: Tagging systems are possible only if people are motivated to do more of the work themselves, for individual and/or social reasons...if tagmania continues, it will provide a layer of new metadata, generated by humans for other humans, that will invoke innovation and businesses -- and problems -- we necessarily cannot anticipate.
Description: "The use of tags for finding information is not always done through one correct word, it is through various avenues of understanding that gives tagging ...
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Description: "The use of tags for finding information is not always done through one correct word, it is through various avenues of understanding that gives tagging its value. There are many correct points of reference for each object and people from various cultures, disciplines, and points of view each person brings."
Description: "I'm not convinced that tagging will persist in the long term and I have a feeling that five years from now we'll be looking back ...
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Description: "I'm not convinced that tagging will persist in the long term and I have a feeling that five years from now we'll be looking back at the fad that was tagging and shaking our heads over the vast inpenetrable databases of tagged content."
