"This paper examines the use of non subject related tags in social bookmarking tools. Previous studies of tagging determined that many common tags are not directly subject related but are in fact affective tags dwelling on a user's emotional response to a document or are time and task related tags related to a users current projects or activities. These tags have been analysed to examine their role in the tagging process."

Screencast (slides & audio) of an entertaining presentation about tagging in LibraryThing given by Tim Spalding at the
Association of Christian Librarians.

[side note: He claims that there are more things tagged daily in LT than the total number of PennTags done in 2 years]

 

Beth's presentation at: Technical Services 2.0: Using Social Software for Collaboration, ALA June 2007

Slides from my presentation at the South Eastern Pennsylvania Theological Library Association (SEPTLA)

"Steroid" Scandal Rocks Major League Libraries, a satirical response to erosion of support for cataloging at the Library of Congress, by Daniel Cohen (December 14, 2007).

"Social tagging, which is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, and social indexing, allows ordinary users to assign keywords, or tags, to items. Typically these items are Web-based resources and the tags become immediately available for others to see and use. Unlike traditional classification, social tagging keywords are typically freely chosen instead of using a controlled vocabulary. Social tagging is of interest to researchers because it is possible that with a sufficiently large number of tags, useful folksonomies will emerge that can either augment or even replace traditional ontologies. As a result, social tagging has created a renewed level of interest in manual indexing [1]. In order for researchers to understand the benefits and limitations of using user-generated tags for indexing and retrieval purposes, it is important to investigate to what extent community influences tagging behaviour, characteristic effects on tag datasets, and whether this influence helps or hinders search and retrieval."

LC has made it possible to make a permanant link to any bibliographic record in their catalog

From Catalogablog:

"The October/November 2007 issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology includes a special section on Folksonomies.

* Introduction: Folksonomies and Image Tagging: Seeing the Future? by Diane Neal, Guest Editor
* Why Are They Tagging, and Why Do We Want Them To? by P. Jason Morrison
* Trouble in Paradise: Conflict Management and Resolution in Social Classification Environments by Chris Landbeck
* Image Indexing: How Can I Find a Nice Pair of Italian Shoes? by Elaine Ménard
* Flickr Image Tagging: Patterns Made Visible by Joan Beaudoin"

LC adds 3,000 images to Flickr and invites the public to tag them

Compares several social cataloging sites

"Social bookmarking websites (like del.icio.us) allow for easy, no-tech-skills-needed creating & editing of web content. This content can be shared with others in a variety of ways (web searching, rss feeds, or on your library website)."

Overview of tagging

Blog entry discusses how AADL added social features to their III OPAC, creating a new Social OPAC or "SOPAC"

Ideas and examples of how libraries are using Flickr

Ideas and examples of how libraries are using Flickr

Library-oriented social bookmarking and rating tool (commercial product from Springshare)

Catalog interface including tagging (commercial product from Innovative Interfaces)

Catalog interface including tagging (commercial product from Ex Libris)

Widgits to enhance library catalogs with tags, reviews, etc.

website for tagging and rating for news, images and videos

A free online service to organise your academic papers

Social bookmarking website

Web tool for anyone to catalog their book collection. Includes tagging feature.

Search engine for blogs

Social bookmarking website at the University of Pennsylvania

Social bookmarking website

Photo sharing website

A bibliography for the Feb. 2008 South Eastern Pennsylvania Theological Library Association (SEPTLA) workshop

"This is Connotea, a free online reference management service for scientists created by Nature Publishing Group...Connotea helps you store your reference list online, which means that it's readily accessible, it's linked directly into the literature and it's easily shared with your colleagues. Opening your references to other researchers enables you to discover new leads by connecting to the collections of those with similar interests to you.

Libraries using del.icio.us

 

Discussion about uses of del.icio.us in libraries

Catalog records include "AddThis!" button

Interesting use of tag clouds to refine searches.  

Focuses mainly on Del.icio.us and LibraryThing, with mentions of other related products, including PennTags

A new widget to aid in tagging.  Now included in OCLC WorldCat  (Now how to get PennTags on the list???)

User tagging of library resources: Toward a framework for system evaluation
JONATHAN FURNER (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

 Presented at IFLA 2007

 

LibraryThing's Tagmash pulls together books at the intersection of 2 tags (e.g. dog & humor). Something like LCSH strings created on the fly ;)

"Louise F. Spiteri writes: "Folksonomies have the potential to add much value to public library catalogs by enabling clients to store, maintain, and organize items of interest in the catalog using their own tags. Tags were acquired over a 30-day period from the daily tag logs of three folksonomy sites, Del.icio.us, Furl, and Technorati. The tags were evaluated against section 6 (choice and form of terms) of the National Information Standards Organization guidelines for the construction of controlled vocabularies."...

"My guess is that the folksonomy that emerges will not change the existing taxonomy because in a miscellaneous world you don't have" to change something in order to change it. The existing taxonomy could stay exactly as it is, as the folksonomy supplements it by providing synonyms for existing categories (e.g., a search for "recipes" takes you to the "cuisine" category of the existing taxonomy) and leaping-off-points from it into the user-created clusters of meaning (e.g., here's the tag cloud for the node you're browsing). Rather than disrupting, transforming or replacing the existing taxonomy, the folksonomy may just affectionately tousle its hair.

Brief blog entry comparing tagging and controlled vocab.

"tagging has brought metadata to the masses"  

From the LibraryThing blog:  a brief comparison of tagging and subjects

LibSite.org is built around the premise that library-related projects need and deserve a higher profile, that the current technology allows us to engage this material in any number of creative ways.

FEATURES
For that reason, the site features a blog, a wiki, RSS feeds and email alerts -- the last two being configurable down to individual tags. Users can rate sites and add them to a "favorites" page.

Compares tagging on LibraryThing to Amazon  (written by the LibraryThing founder)

Interesting read

Nice summary of tagging.  Include bibliography