Social Tagging

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Social Tagging

• Sarah Hayman

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Terminology

• tagginglabelling of items
• user taggingtagging by user
• folksonomycollection of user tags

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Tagging
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Expert tagging
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Machine tagging
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Personal tagging
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Benefits of tagging

• multidimensionaldifferent terms for one item
  enables different collections
• meaningful to userterminology, language,
  concepts
• sharedcommunities, knowledge creation
• informs information management

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Issues with tagging

• inconsistent application
• level of specificity
• same tag, different concepts
• lack of meaning structure for tags
• mixing of subject, type, genre, format
• vulnerable to spam
• trends, dominant views

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edna links
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user resource tag
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myedna proof of concept
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Taxonomy-Directed Folksonomy
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The future?

• Folksonomy inspired taxonomy?

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• Hayman S 2007
• Folksonomies and tagging new developments in
  social bookmarking
• http//educationau.edu.au/jahia/Jahia/home/pid/482

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shayman_at_educationau.edu.au