PennTags Feed for /tag/tagging

E-LIS - @toread and Cool : Subjective, Affective and Associative Factors in Tagging

"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."

Thingology : Screencast: What's the big deal about tagging?

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]

Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags

PennTags: Social Bookmarking in a Technical Services Environment

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

Social Tagging & Libraries

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

Can Social Bookmarking Improve Web Search?

UM Library: MTagger: All Tags

Look! Mtagger!!

"Steroid" Scandal Rocks Major League Libraries

"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).

Collaborative and Social Tagging Networks, Ariadne Issue 54

"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."

Can Social Bookmarking Improve Web Search (application/pdf Object)

Library of Congress LCCN Permalink

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

ASIST Bulletin_OctNov07

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"

My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven

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

Librarything, Shelfari, and Gurulib: Social Cataloging Sites Compared

Compares several social cataloging sites

Library Subject Guides using del.icio.us

"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)."

The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging

Overview of tagging

AADL.org Goes Social

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

31 Flavors - Things to Do With Flickr in Libraries

Ideas and examples of how libraries are using Flickr

About Flickr

Ideas and examples of how libraries are using Flickr

LibMarks, Social Bookmarking Service for Libraries

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

Encore

Catalog interface including tagging (commercial product from Innovative Interfaces)

Primo

Catalog interface including tagging (commercial product from Ex Libris)

LibraryThing for Libraries

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

Digg

website for tagging and rating for news, images and videos

CiteULike

A free online service to organise your academic papers

Furl

Social bookmarking website

LibraryThing

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

Technorati

Search engine for blogs

PennTags

Social bookmarking website at the University of Pennsylvania

del.icio.us

Social bookmarking website

Flickr

Photo sharing website

Social Tagging & Libraries

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

Connotea - a free online reference management service for scientists

"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.

del.icio.us libraries

Libraries using del.icio.us

Del.icio.us and the library web page - Library 2.0

Discussion about uses of del.icio.us in libraries

Law Library Web Catalog - Warren E. Burger Library

Catalog records include "AddThis!" button

Library of Congress Blog B; My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven (Library of Congress)

The Library of Congress announces a partnership with flickr to collect metadata.

Drill Clouds - CISTI-ICIST LAB WIKI

Interesting use of tag clouds to refine searches.

Dr. Ana Alice Baptista - 29 January 2007 [OCLC]

From the website:

Abstract:
This presentation by Dr. Ana Alice Baptista, head of Odisseia, will describe several projects including:

CRiB (Conversion and Recommendation of Digital Object Formats), a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) designed to assist cultural heritage institutions in the implementation of migration-based preservation interventions. The CRiB system works by assessing the quality of distinct conversion applications or services to produce recommendations of optimal migration strategies. The recommendations produced by the system take into account the specific preservation requirements of each client institution.
Add-ons to DSpace
Commenting Add-On: a set of classes, servlets and custom tags that bring informal communication capabilities to the DSpace environment. The informal communication is assured by a threaded forum that can be attached to any DSpace resource: web-page, community, collection, submitted item or e-person.
Ontology Add-On: a feature that allows administrators to control the set of keywords used to describe submitted items. U Minho has ported to its system the publicly-available Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computing Classification System (CCS).
Recommendation Add-On: a set of custom tags that provide suggestions of resources (items, e-persons and comments) related to a given selected resource.
Web of Communication Add-On: the 3D Web of Communication allows the user to discover hidden relationships between items, comments and people. It works by displaying a VRML 3D web of resources involved in a communication process. The user is also able to jump to specific items on the environment thus providing a 3D navigational system over DSpace.

Social tagging: Odisseia is involved in two social tagging-related projects: 1. to find out how information retrieval is affected by the use of social tags, 2. an international collaborative effort investigate which kinds of tags are being commonly used.

Bielenberg: Groups in Social Software: Utilizing Tagging to Integrate Individual Contexts for Social Navigation - Google Scholar

Why do tagging systems work?

ABSTRACT

The panel will explore the relevance of the emerging tagging systems (Flickr, Del.icio.us, RawSugar and more). Why do they seem to work? What kinds of incentives are required for users to participate? Will tagging survive and scale to mass adoption? What are the behavioral, economic, and social models that underlie each tagging system? What are the dynamics of those systems, and how are they derived from the specific application's design and affordances?.We will demand answers to these questions and others from some of the pioneering practitioners and academics in the field. Bring your wireless laptop to participate in a live tagging experiment! The experiment results will be shown and discussed at the end of the panel. To add to the fun, parts of the discussion will be motivated by short video segments.

SEARCHING THE LONG TAIL: HIDDEN STRUCTURE IN SOCIAL TAGGING

Abstract
In this paper we explore a method of decomposition of compound tags found in social tagging systems
and outline several results, including improvement of search indexes, extraction of semantic information,
and benefits to usability. Analysis of tagging habits demonstrates that social tagging systems such as
del.icio.us and flickr include both formal metadata, such as geotags, and informally created metadata,
such as annotations and descriptions. The majority of tags represent informal metadata; that is, they are
not structured according to a formal model, nor do they correspond to a formal ontology.
Statistical exploration of the main tag corpus demonstrates that such searches use only a subset of the
available tags; for example, many tags are composed as ad hoc compounds of terms. In order to improve
accuracy of searching across the data contained within these tags, a method must be employed to
decompose compounds in such a way that there is a high degree of confidence in the result. An approach
to decomposition of English-language compounds, designed for use within a small initial sample tagset, is
described. Possible decompositions are identified from a generous wordlist, subject to selective lexicon
snipping. In order to identify the most likely, a Bayesian classifier is used across term elements. To
compensate for the limited sample set, a word classifier is employed and the results classified using a
similar method, resulting in a successful classification rate of 88%, and a false negative rate of only 1%.

SEARCHING THE LONG TAIL: HIDDEN STRUCTURE IN SOCIAL TAGGING

Emerald: Article Request

There are numerous difficulties with collaborative tagging systems (e.g. low precision, lack of collocation, etc.) that originate from the absence of properties that characterise controlled vocabularies. However, such systems can not be dismissed. Librarians and information professionals have lessons to learn from the interactive and social aspects exemplified by collaborative tagging systems, as well as their success in engaging users with information management. The future co-existence of controlled vocabularies and collaborative tagging is predicted, with each appropriate for use within distinct information contexts: formal and informal.
Research limitations/implications – Librarians and information professional researchers should be playing a leading role in research aimed at assessing the efficacy of collaborative tagging in relation to information storage, organisation, and retrieval, and to influence the future development of collaborative tagging systems.
Practical implications – The paper indicates clear areas where digital libraries and repositories could innovate in order to better engage users with information.

Harvesting social knowledge from folksonomies

ABSTRACT

Collaborative tagging systems, or folksonomies, have the potential of becoming technological infrastructure to support knowledge management activities in an organization or a society. There are many challenges, however. This paper presents designs that enhance collaborative tagging systems to meet some key challenges: community identification, ontology generation, user and document recommendation. Design prototypes, evaluation methodology and selected preliminary results are presented.

ASIST October-November Bulletin

Special section with focus on folksonomies and tagging.

Semiotic dynamics and collaborative tagging

Cattuto,C . "Semiotic dynamics and collaborative tagging" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America [0027-8424] 104.5 (2007). 1461-1464.

The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education

Boulos,M . "The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education" Health information and libraries journal [1471-1834] 24.1 (2007). 2-23.

Why should I share? Examining social capital and knowledge contribution in electronic networks of practice

Wasko,M . "Why should I share? Examining social capital and knowledge contribution in electronic networks of practice" MIS quarterly [0276-7783] 29.1 (2005). 35-57.

Beyond the call of duty: Why customers contribute to firm-hosted commercial online communities

Wiertz,C . "Beyond the call of duty: Why customers contribute to firm-hosted commercial online communities" Organization studies [0170-8406] 28.3 (2007). 347-376.

Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us

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

PennTags / help /getting_started

Add This! Social Bookmark and Feed Button - Web2.0 Social Media Optimization

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

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

Presented at IFLA 2007

GeoRSS | GeoRSS :: Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds

GeoRSS

This site describes a number of ways to encode location in RSS feeds. As RSS becomes more and more prevalent as a way to publish and share information, it becomes increasingly important that location is described in an interoperable manner so that applications can request, aggregate, share and map geographically tagged feeds.

To avoid the fragmentation of language that has occurred in RSS and other Web information encoding efforts, we have created this site to promote a relatively small number of encodings that meet the needs of a wide range of communities. By building these encodings on a common information model, we hope to promote interoperability and "upwards-compatibility" across encodings.

Tagmash: Book tagging grows up

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

Structure and form of folksonomy tags: The road to the public library catalogue

"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."...

PennTags - When card catalogs meet tags.

"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.

Problems with Tagging

tagging vs. cataloging: what it's all about

Brief blog entry comparing tagging and controlled vocab.

"tagging has brought metadata to the masses"

Tagging meets Subject Headings

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

Starting April 5, 2006

Dan Bricklin describes an image capture for a social bookmarking system for shopping. The image capture makes a thumbnail of the image and uses it as a tag. Neat idea...maybe applicable.

libSite.org | A Recommendation Service for Library-related Websites

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.

When tags work and when they don't: Amazon and LibraryThing

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

Science

Taxonomies and Trees

Interesting read

Ontology of Folksonomy

Millennial Net Value(s): Disconnects Between Libraries and the Information Age Mindset(application/pdf Object)

A much better than average report on the relationships between librarianship and the values of libraries and the values held by the media savvy, technology-centered students of today. Describes the two sets of values, and describes how libraries can adabt to the new expectation in meaningful ways.

pg 99 "It is clear that Millennials and others comfortable with a wide range of media and technologies will redefine the traditional manifestations of research and creative activity with these new mashed, cut and pasted creations. For them, the line between consumer and creator is blurred in a way that previously was not possible."

pg 100 "Clear rifts have emerged in the virtual terrain that is occupied by library policies, services and collections and is explored by online users. These rifts or disconnects can be grouped into three classifications for redress. These include technology (infrastructure and integration), policy (copyright, IT policy, liability), and unexploited opportunities."

Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags?

Argues for the usefulness of collaborative tagging, and highlights the known problems with free tagging. Points to some obvious, and some more controversial ways of limiting problems of inter-tagger inconsistency and meaningless distinctions.

In this article we look at what makes folksonomies work. We agree with the premise that tags are no replacement for formal systems, but we see this as being the core quality that makes folksonomy tagging so useful. We begin by looking at the issue of "sloppy tags", a problem to which critics of folksonomies are keen to allude, and ask if there are ways the folksonomy community could offset such problems and create systems that are conducive to searching, sorting and classifying. We then go on to question this "tidying up" approach and its underlying assumptions, highlighting issues surrounding removal of low-quality, redundant or nonsense metadata, and the potential risks of tidying too neatly and thereby losing the very openness that has made folksonomies so popular.

The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems

Shows the practices of taggers and tags.

Collaborative tagging describes the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content. Recently, collaborative tagging has grown in popularity on the web, on sites that allow users to tag bookmarks, photographs and other content. In this paper we analyze the structure of collaborative tagging systems as well as their dynamical aspects. Specifically, we discovered regularities in user activity, tag frequencies, kinds of tags used, bursts of popularity in bookmarking and a remarkable stability in the relative proportions of tags within a given url. We also present a dynamical model of collaborative tagging that predicts these stable patterns and relates them to imitation and shared knowledge.

Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags

Looks at the development of various classification systems leading up to tagging, or user created metadata. Argues that tagging more closely mirrors the nature of web information.

Argues that ontologies are a bad ideal for organizing the world online. Points out that library classification systems are designed to optimize space on the shelves, not to describe the essences of identities. Also, that library classification systems are fundamentally about organizing books, not about organizing the enormity of human knowledge. The same flaws exists in a hierarchical file system. That it is designed with the assumption that a thing can only be in one place at one time -- it makes some attempt to have the organizional structure of ideas match the physical world, where in fact a pointer, or an idea, or a metaphorical path can be in countless places at the same time, and can have many equally important and useful relationships which describe it.

That ontologies are useful where there are expert users, clear categories and a limited domain. But, much less useful for non-expert users or large domains, and fuzzy categories. Links are the universal pointers on the web, and the addition of tags is simple, and provides a much more useful finding system than an ontology. With a system like delicious, you get to know who's doing the tagging, not just what the tags are, so you get to limit searches by people and time, limiting the size of your group [penntags tie-in].

Folksonomies: power to the people

Very clear pros and cons of folksonomies versus more traditional classification systems. Looks at when and for what each kind of classification is most useful.

InfoTangle :: The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging :: December :: 2005

A Columbia Librarian posted a long article about tagging systems and their use in libraries. Interesting reading.

Taxonomies and Tags: From Trees to Piles of Leaves

A beautiful brief essay about tags.

Patterns and Inconsistencies in Collaborative Tagging Systems : An Examination of Tagging Practices (application/pdf Object)

This paper analyzes the tagging patterns exhibited by users of del.icio.us, to assess how collaborative tagging supports and enhances traditional ways of classifying and indexing documents. Using frequency data and co-word analysis matrices analyzed by multi-dimensional scaling, the authors discovered that tagging practices to some extent work in ways that are continuous with conventional indexing. Small numbers of tags tend to emerge by unspoken consensus, and inconsistencies follow several predictable patterns that can easily be anticipated. However, the tags also indicated intriguing practices relating to time and task which suggest the presence of an extra dimension in classification and organization, a dimension which conventional systems are unable to facilitate.

mkipp-caispaper.pdf (application/pdf Object)

This paper examines the context of online indexing from the viewpoint of three different groups: users, authors, and intermediaries. User, author and intermediary keywords were collected from journal articles tagged on citeulike and analysed. Descriptive statistics and thesaural term comparison shows that there are important differences in the context of keywords from the three groups.

Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy

"Philosophical relativism appears to be the underlying philosophy behind folksonomies. Because of those underpinnings, it is possible to jettison the limitations of a traditional classification statement such as "A is not B". In a folksonomy system, "A is relative to B", because each item's index terms will depend on the individual user and the tags he or she decides to use. A philosophy of relativism allows folksonomy to draw on many users with various perceptions to classify a document instead of relying on one individual cataloger to set the index terms for that item. Thus, classification terms become relative to each user."

Flickr: Photos tagged with sigcr2006

N I N E S

NINES is a federation of peer-reviewed resources and innovative research tools, made freely available to students and scholars of 19th-century culture.

SIG/CR: Classification Research - events

Wired News: Social Bookmarking Showdown

PennTags /

Wired article

DCMI Social Tagging Community

semantically ordered tag cloud - data visualization

from the infosthetics blog - "semantically ordered tag clouds that resemble self-organizing maps. the size of the text & the color brightness of the background represent the frequency of the different terms. this technique has been applied to visualize the keywords present in website favorites, or the tags used by different del.ico.us users for the same web pages."

tags clouds developed by Moritz Stefaner

Tagging | TechEssence.Info

Nice summary of tagging. Include bibliography

MarkaBoo :: better bookmarks for everyone

Really well, reviewed in TechCrunch, this is a new, open source social bookmarking tool. Apparently, it allows you to upload and bookmark all kinds of files.

Complore-Come Xplore.

Research-oriented social bookmarking site. Some interesting categories for sharing content (articles, lectures, papers), the ability to send private messages and the ability to join groups.

Scan This Book! - New York Times

Times magazine article on scanning the library and how this is tranformative. Adam gave me this heads-up as a "good introduction to tagging and scanning for the layman".

Taxonomies and Tags: From Trees to Piles of Leaves

A beautiful brief essay about tags.

Google Notebook

Google Notebook makes web research of all kinds – from planning a vacation to researching a school paper to buying a car – easier and more efficient by enabling you to clip and gather information even while you're browsing the web.

And since Google Notebook lives in your browser, you won't be left with a scattered collection of notes, Word docs, and browser bookmarks to sort through; all your web findings will be gathering into one organized, easy accessible location that you can access from any computer.

3spots: ALL Social that CAN bookmark

A very very long annotated list of social bookmarking sites.

Plum

Plum is similar to Kaboodle and Stylehive in that it is a social bookmarking site that allows users to add a lot of metadata about bookmarks (including images). Bookmarked items can tagged and be added to a public, private or shared “collection” (there are a number of defaul collections and more can be added).

One key way that Plum is different than other bookmarking site is that it allows users to bookmark items on their computer, not just on the web. A file that is open in certain desktop applications (things like photos, power point presentations, iTunes playlists, address book entries, email, etc) can be added to Plum by clicking a button on the Plummer, a small downloadable application for Windows or Mac. See the last screen shot below for a look at the Plummer.

Gee...projects and local resource tagging! How are we to ever keep up?

David Weinberger dinner speech

My favorite article. I wish I could force you to read this article. please...

"And you would never ever get this organization of knowledge right. Its not a solvable problem. It cant be done. Theres not a right way of doing it because there’s no single way of organizing this stuff. Taxonomies are not reflections of nature, they’re tools. And tools depend on what you want to do. It depends on your context. So along comes tagging."

Getting My Bearings: The best of del.icio.us

A blog post looking at the ways people use delicious and highlighting that just as much of the stuff on delicious is junk as the reset of web.

Platial.com

Allows users to store, tag, and share locations -- based on google maps, but does interesting things. Users add photos of places, and lots of other tagged info about the places.

lib.rario.us

Another "catalog your own collection" site, but with a multimedia approach.

lib.rario.us

Another "catalog your own collection" site, but with a multimedia approach.

Listible! Quick way to get resources

Listible is a new way to get relevant resources quickly.

By using Web 2.0 features such as AJAX, folksonomy (tagging), social elements such as voting/commenting and the listible's listonomy (listing), resources can be sorted in a way that will be digestible.

Wired News: Tips From Top Taggers

Daily Kos: Tagging Tips

3spots: Social Bookmarks: Import and tagging tips

Top Tagging Tips - Lifehacker

What is Delicious?

TechCrunch -- Bookmarks integrated into Google Toolbar

Techcrunch post about google bookmarks in IE Toolbar.

"Google Bookmarks have no “social” or sharing feature. And while it is disappointing that bookmarks are not available yet for Firefox, I will say that the interface in IE is excellent. In addition to setting tags, users can access bookmarks directly from the toolbar via a drop down menu containing chosen tags."

del.icio.us stats - deli.ckoma

provides data on del.icio.us.

7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking (pdf)

A nice 2 page pamphlet describing social bookmarking. Clear and concise.

Firefox Scholar (aka SmartFox) - ToolCenter

A very clear description of the proposed SmartFox application.

Visualizing Del.icio.us Roundup B; Solution Watch

A list of lots of sites that show various ways of visualizing delicious tags, from tagclouds to all sorts of other systems.

The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging

Nice overview.

TechCrunch B; FeedBurner Integrates Web Services Into Feeds

Check this out. Feedburner has added this really cool feature to their feeds, which allows you to email, or tag to delicious, an item directly from your feedreader. From techcrunch.

Web as it was meant to be

Finding a Persistant URL

I have no idea what to do with this but it is at least a way to get around the fulltext issue in CSA if absolutely necessary.

Taxonomies and Tags: From Trees to Piles of Leaves

A beautiful brief essay about tags.

Wisdom of crowds : why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies and nations / James Surowiecki.

google : itunes xhtml playlists

Not only do people make lists, they like to share lists...

tim stevenson recent reading list

TechCrunch B; My Thoughts on Reading Lists

Interesting discussion about making OPML dynamic like the RSS feeds that an OPML file aggregates. This would allow the distribution model of OPML to be changed to a subscription model. In TagIt, we've sort of got this without having to change the way feed readers work. Since a bibliography is capable of creating an RSS feed, they already can be read by the feed readers dynamically -- that is, the readers can get new content as the bibliography is updated. And since the bibliography topics themselves are simply posts, they can be consumed via RSS. The only things I'd need to do in the code is

update the timestamp on the bibliography topic whenever a component is added or edited
give access to an rss feed of just the bibliography topics (by user or by TagIt instance)

grocerylists.org | The Grocery List Collection

Tags, keywords, and inconsistency

Here The Search Guy claims that inconsistency in assigning keywords is the problem with tagging, and I would say that that same inconsistency is the whole reason why tags are useful in some instances. Because if I'm looking for something that I've already found, I want to be able to search for it in the context that I remember it, and not in some arbitrary other context that someone else imagined. It's not a replacement for subject headings in most cases, but is another way of keeping information.

Flock

This is a new browser, based on the Firefox model, that incorporates tagging and feeds into its structure. I wonder how hard it will be to add extensions.

Susan Mernit's Blog: Talking: The distributed web

"On a tactical level, this means that web sites that focus on improving their content, updating more frequently, recruiting users through community, etc. are missing half the picture--the half that says that if you issue APIs for your site's products and services, allow remixes, encourage--no, help--users tag your data--and RSS-ify everything--you'll be far ahead of the game and grow links--and audience--like crazy because your discoverability will soar. In other words, you need to not only improve your destination, you need to move off it."

Library Stuff

We're getting good press from one of my favorite blogs. yay

American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum: Enriching the Impact Regression Equation

Helpful for suggesting 5 measures that can be used to weight the impact of a post:

recursive - citerank
use counts
rating scores
co-citation & hub-authority scores
author self citations

While clearly aimed at journal article citation impact rankings, some of this could be useful to determine an impact factor for the tagging system.

In PennTags, I'd like to rate posts on their impact, and extend ratings to authors too. This could build into a matrix that supports 'tribal elders' in a community of learners. I would expect that faculty would be rated high in impact, since many students would copy or follow their posts. As their postings became more impactful, the faculty authors themselves would become more impactful too. But it is a democracy of postings, and students or staff could rise. Some, some kind of hubbing would need to be developed too.

Wow, all I can say is this is very complicated...

http://shadows.com/

This is linked from inside Pluck, which I was using to see how it's working these days.

Shadows is a social bookmarking service for discovering, sharing and managing information on the web. Shadows supercharges this information with a "Shadow Page" — a community blog for any web page that includes views, ratings, tags, and comments by you, your friends and the Shadows community.

Seven Samurai

This is the topic of my bibliography. I will write a whole about this film.

PennTags Instructions

These are instructions about using PennTags. For more help, contact Laurie Allen at laallen@pobox.upenn.edu. Or AIM upennliblaurie

Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular Engagement: Exploring Collaborative Annotation to Encourage Interaction with Museum Collections

article on museums' use of tagging to help users access images (community cataloging, they say)

Social Bookmarking Tools (II): A Case Study - Connotea

Useful article explaining how to use connotea and why you might want to.

OPAC Wishlist from Librarycrunch

A blogpost from LibraryCrunch listing great additions to the library catalog of the future.

Grassroots Cooperative Categorization Of Digital Content Assets: Folksonomies, What They Are, Why They Work - Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings

Another one of those articles that describes the whens and why's of traditionaly classification schemes versus folksonomies and tagging systems.

H2O Playlist: Home

An H2O playlist is a shared list of readings and other content about a topic of intellectual interest. it is a simple yet powerful way to group and exchange useful links to information -- online and offline.

I saw a presentation at Educause about this and talked to these guys. It is an open source project in java/tomcat. Really very similar to TagIt, but it is presented in the context playlists. Also, cool idea of 'influence' rather than subjective ratings like in TagIt...

Writely - The Web Word Processor

This is amazing. Shared document editing that can be uploaded or downloaded and shared in a million ways, including sending right to a blog. Writeboard is totally primitive compared to this, which allows you to tag your documents.

ProgrammableWeb: Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix

This is a really hard thing to tag. Basically, it's a grid that shows what little applications exist that combine other commong applications. So, for instance, what exists to combine Flickr with Delicious. or with Google Earth. Or amazon.

The XML Bookmark Exchange Language Resource Page

Mike already tagged this one, but it's quite fascinating so I thought I'd tag it again. So, if this does what I think it does, we could export bookmarks from delicious --> tagit and vice versa. Which would be so cool.

About My Library

NCSU is starting a "my library" project that appears to include a tagging resource called MyLinks. But, it looks like you have to log in.

unalog: Unalog!

You can look at what various people and groups of people are reading on the web here. You can get an account and add your own links, and create and join groups here too. If you get an account, or create a group, either one can be made private, so nobody but you (if a private account) or your fellow group members (if a private group) can see your links.

Salon.com Technology | Steal this bookmark!

A more popular introduction to tagging from Salon. If you're not a member of Salon.com, prepare to watch a loong ad. Wouldn't it be cool if the library could get a library subscription to Salon?

Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Review

From April 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine, this artilce gives an overview of social bookmarking tools.

CiteULike: A free online service to organise your academic papers

Citeulike has some really great qualities -- like the fact that you can see what people are reading. But, it's sort of annoying to get citations into CiteUlike sometimes. The cloud of tags on the right of the main page shows you how popular given tags are. The bigger the tag, the more items it contains.

Wired News: Folksonomies Tap People Power

A relatively short article on tagging systems, and their popularity.

Connotea - a free online reference management service for scientists

Catalog your books with LibraryThing

Web application LibraryThing lets you catalog all the books you own and use tags to organize your collection.
Add book titles by entering a title and viewing search results from the Library of Congress or Amazon. LibraryThing adds the book’s card to your catalog with ISBN, publisher, year and an image of the book cover. You have space to add a book summary, tags, your comments and a review. See what other users also have each book in their library and what they’ve tagged it. LibraryThing is an impressive cataloging app that feels like del.icio.us for books.

Flickr - Photo Sharing

Flickr allows users to store and organize their own images, and to view, tag, and comment on other immages.

del.icio.us

It takes a little getting used to, but Delicious is an incredible tool for keeping track of websites and finding other ones. I never really bookmarked things before delicious, but after a little practice, I can't imagine life without it. I have feeds for my favorite tags (like one for GIS) so I can see what's happening in the web world. Because of the interests of the people using it, it still tends to be pretty techy in the links in there, but more and more people are using it all the time, with their own interests. It's worth trying to get to know it, I think.