Folksonomies in the library: their impact on user experience, and their implications for the work of librarians

Porter, John

doi:10.1080/00049670.2011.10722621

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“…A relatively newer kind of metadata occurs in the form of a folksonomy. A folksonomy, as based on information architect Thomas Vander Wal's ( 2007) definition (as cited in Porter, 2011), is a "structure that emerges from users tagging information and objects using personally meaningful terms, rather than terms from a controlled vocabulary" (Porter, 2011, p. 249). Tagging, as mentioned previously, has to do with people coming up with their own keywords with which they label objects; specifically relating to books, users of social websites such as Goodreads, Flickr, and LibraryThing generate these labels to help themselves categorize books in personally meaningful ways, such that they will be able to better remember information they associated with the books in the future.…”

Section: Folksonomies: Augmenting Opacsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Tagging, as mentioned previously, has to do with people coming up with their own keywords with which they label objects; specifically relating to books, users of social websites such as Goodreads, Flickr, and LibraryThing generate these labels to help themselves categorize books in personally meaningful ways, such that they will be able to better remember information they associated with the books in the future. These tags when put together create a system of categorization known as a folksonomy (Porter, 2011).…”

Section: Folksonomies: Augmenting Opacsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Benefits of folksonomies include the naturalistic terminology-these are terms that users of the system create themselves and thus understand, which increases the number of access points that allow a user to find an object, as well as their adaptability to the surrounding environment. They also encourage browsing and serendipitous discovery of resources (Porter, 2011).…”

Section: Folksonomies: Augmenting Opacsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Searching for Fiction for Pleasure Reading: Current Research and Recommendations

Huang

Nathan-Roberts

2019

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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One of the major tasks library patrons are faced with is searching for a good book to read, particularly when they have no specific book in mind. As such, people faced with this task search in places such as online catalogs, looking at existing book reviews and descriptions, and they also ask librarians and other readers’ advisors for assistance in finding book recommendations. This paper attempts to review the research on how people conduct searches for pleasure reading, as well as research for online catalog design in order to inform the search process, leading to recommendations for future work in catalog design and readers’ advisory driven by the application of human factors principles in the search process.

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Section: Folksonomies: Augmenting Opacsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Folksonomies: Augmenting Opacsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Folksonomies: Augmenting Opacsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Searching for Fiction for Pleasure Reading: Current Research and Recommendations

Huang

Nathan-Roberts

2019

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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“…However, this method requires a relatively high minimum number of users who are actively working with a system. This is a kind of crowd processing, with all related advantages and disadvantages [Porter, 2011].…”

Section: Subject Description In Bibliographic Records For Scientific mentioning

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Automatic Subject Indexing and Classification Using Text Recognition and Computer-Based Analysis of Tables of Contents

Pokorný¹

2018

22nd International Conference on Electronic Publishing

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Book titles for the natural and technical sciences do not include information about all topics a book contains. For example, for a book entitled XML Technology: Principles and Applications in Practice, it is unclear whether a chapter on language XQuery is included or not. Even bibliographic records with subject headings cannot solve such problems because catalogers often do not have sufficient knowledge of particular scientific disciplines. Unlike titles, book tables of contents (ToCs) in the natural and technical sciences often have highly precise descriptions of topics covered in chapters and subchapters. This means it is possible to successfully harvest keywords from ToCs with high relevancy. Such keywords can then become reliable input data for subject indexing and subject classification in library catalogs and other search engines, giving users the ability to search all important topics covered anywhere in a book. Library collections of print books are traditionally processed for library catalogs in the form of bibliographic records consisting of fields with descriptive data (author name, number of pages, language of publication, name of publisher) and subject data (keywords, subject headings, classification terms). Selected fields are indexed and can serve as access points or filters/facets in a catalog. Users are usually looking for either a specific book in a catalog (e.g., a user looks for a book entitled Nanotechnology in biology and medicine: methods, devices, and applications by Tauna Vo-Dinh, 2007) or is looking for books on a certain topic (e.g., a user wants some books in the field of nanotechnology in medicine) [Lown & Sierra & Tito, 2013]. These are two completely different search strategies. In this article, we will look at a technology that addresses the second strategy, a search based on book subject.

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“…Porter provides an overview of folksonomies and reviews the related literature through 2009. 60 Their main disadvantages, lack of semantic and linguistic control, are also their greatest strengths as they are not tied to particular terms, unlike traditional controlled vocabularies. Comparisons between usercontributed metadata and controlled vocabulary systems, particularly LCSH, frequently refer back to criticisms of traditional controlled vocabulary as too rigid and unable to represent the diversity of the users they are trying to serve.…”

Section: Controlled Vocabularies and Authority Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Positioning Libraries for a New Bibliographic Universe

Martin¹,

Mundle²

2014

LRTS

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Folksonomies in the library: their impact on user experience, and their implications for the work of librarians

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

Searching for Fiction for Pleasure Reading: Current Research and Recommendations

Searching for Fiction for Pleasure Reading: Current Research and Recommendations

Automatic Subject Indexing and Classification Using Text Recognition and Computer-Based Analysis of Tables of Contents

Positioning Libraries for a New Bibliographic Universe

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