1. A Collaborative Tagging Experience in Primary School
Third Italian IA Summit
Renata Durighello
Forlì - February 2009

2. Concerning “Learning to think” …
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 To observe;
 To make comparisons and transfers;
 To move gradually towards classification;
Concerning “Information

Architecture” …
 To evaluate “tagging”;
 To experience collaborative tagging;
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3. Concept:
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 On line tagging
 Text analysis (genre, subject,…)
Metaphores:

 “On paper ” tagging
 Picture reading
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4. Spring 2008
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41 pupils (9 to 10 years old)
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2 groups
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“On paper” On line
 
 Tag production  Tag production
 Tag observation  Tag observation (2)
http://lnx.rodari.org/taggare
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6. “any word that defines a relationship between the
(online) resource and a concept in the user’s
mind”. (Guy & Tonkin, 2006)
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7. What can you see in the picture?
1.
How do you find the picture?
2.
What kind of picture is it?
3.
Anything
4.
else…
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8. 1. Man, 2. Happy,
Tiger, Naif,
Guitar, a dream,
Trees, …
Flowers, …
4. Nice,
3. Painting, Ugly, …
Canvas, …
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10.  Mistakes:
 Mis-spells;
 Inappropriate associations;
 Many different Tags/Tag types:
  Variety – long tail;
  Disorder – dispersion.
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11. PUBBLICITA’
1 occurrence
PUBLICITA’
3 occurrences
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12. ‘TIGER’ ???
‘PHOTOGRAPH’ ???
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13. ‘FORTE’
(quality)
‘CON UN
GONNELLINO’
(attribute)
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14. ‘BALLANO’
(action)
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15. • ‘LINES’
• ‘VERTICAL & HORIZONTAL LINES’
• ‘STRAIGHT LINES’
• ‘POLYGONS’
4 different (?) Tags
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16. • ‘DRAWING’
• ‘COLLAGE’
• ‘DECOUPAGE’
What kind of picture is it?
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17. SUBJECT
DRAWING
PHOTO
TREES ANIMAL
PAINTING
PEOPLE
KIND OF
PICTURE
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18. There are mis-spells;

Some Tags are

inappropriate;
 Pictures are not well
described;
 Most common Tags cannot
be employed as Categories;
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19. There are mis-spells;

Some Tags are

inappropriate;
 Pictures are not well
described;
 Most common Tags cannot
be employed as Categories;
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20. There are mis-spells;

Some Tags are

inappropriate;
Tagging  Pictures are not well
described;
 Most common Tags cannot
be employed as Categories;
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21. TAGS
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22.  Pupils have learnt how to tag during
the previous experience (on-paper);
 They get confident very soon with
the application;
 Tag visualization + Tag Cloud are
automatically created by the
application.
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23. TAGCLOUD
TAGS
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24. TREE
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25. NOISE:
‘colorata’
UPPER /
‘colorati’
LOWER
‘colorato’
CASE
SINGULAR SYNOMYMS:
/ PLURAL: ‘quadro’
‘persona’ ‘dipinto’
‘persone’
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26. Agreement on some “rules”:

 To employ only lower case;
 Not to inflect adjectives;
 To employ plural nouns (as if we were
thinking of a group of several elements)
“Tiding up Tags”:

 Not easy (singular/plural) Guy, M., & Tonkin, E. (2006).
Folksonomies ,Tiding up Tags?
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28. Plural nouns refer to the idea that the

resource is member of a group / class
Tags are associated to the resource as far as

they describe it.
Membership > CLASSIFICATION

 Description > CATEGORIZATION
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29. BROAD FOLKSONOMY NARROW FOLKSONOMY
HOUSE, DUSTBIN, BIG TREE, GREEN
LIGHT, BORDEAUX BACKGROUND
LAWN
DRAWING
TAG(S) ON WHICH MOST PEOPLE AGREE
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30. Can I classify?
Classification begins when I’m able to talk
about the resource, to say something about it.
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31. Broad Folksonomy VS Narrow Folksonomy:

 BF allows to point out the most “important” Tag(s);
Collaborative Tagging

 to share rules , euristics,…;
Tag noise

 mis-spells, synonims …;
Tag unreliability

Whose fault is it?
 harvesting information;
Interference :

 Tags meaning membership;
 Tags meaning description;
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32. Trying to arrange the Tags we produced into a

taxonomy (card sorting, trees, maps…).
Going on tagging other kind of resources

(documents, textual resources).
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