Collaborative tagging as a knowledge organisation and resource discovery tool

Abstract

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Metadata for semantic and social applications<br />DC- 2008 Berlin

“…Eight questionnaire respondents participated in follow-up semi-structured interviews that further explored tagging practices by situating questionnaire responses within concrete experiences using popular websites such as YouTube, Facebook, Del.icio.us, and Flickr. Preliminary results of this study echo findings found in the growing literature concerning social tagging from the fields of computer science (Sen et al, 2006) and information science Macgregor & McCulloch, 2006). Generally, two classes of social taggers emerge: those who focus on tagging for individual purposes, and those who view tagging as a way to share or communicate meaning to others.…”

Designing an informal learning support framework

“…Tags can help learners discover new material that they would otherwise miss [47]. Macgregor and McCulloch [48] explain how a collaborative tagging mechanism can be more effective in learning material discovery than controlled vocabulary tagging.…”

Social Tagging as a Knowledge Organization and Resource Discovery Tool

“…Tags are typically single terms and are often pictured as a tag cloud where the most used tags are shown in bigger font and least used are shown as smaller font. Multiple tags can be assigned to a single source by removing punctuation and by using symbols to combine terms (Macgregor & McCulloch, 2006).…”

“…To ensure an appropriate balance between recall and precision, an indexing term process is used to allow more control over the creation of index terms. Controlled vocabulary is an example of an indexing process which ensures that index terms are standardized and related resources are collected for an easy access (Macgregor & McCulloch, 2006). In addition to its use in library science, controlled vocabulary guides users as they gather information resources on the internet using traditional search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft MSN.…”