Tagging (Canux 2007)

Tagging Gene Smith CanUX 2007 • Banff, Alberta

“When the hype wears down... I think tagging will have altered the information landscape in a fundamental way” - Jon Udell

Tagging is... • Simple, flexible, extensible • Quick • Social • Collaborative

Social Information Software Architecture Computer-mediated Organizing info so collaboration and others can ﬁnd it sharing Tagging Social metadata Personal Information Management Organizing your information to get things done

User Resource Tags Tagging System

“When the hype wears down... I think tagging will have altered the information landscape in a fundamental way” - Jon Udell

Volume Time

Volume Time ?

Landscape • Static ➔ Dynamic • Low(er) Volume ➔ High(er) Volume • Localized ➔ Ubiquitous and Immersive • Centralized ➔ Distributed • Authoritarian ➔ Social

“Believe it or not, we are all becoming librarians... “ “As the Internet provides users with the freedom to publish information, it quietly burdens them with the responsibility to organize that information” - Peter Morville & Lou Rosenfeld

Five Motivations • Ease of Use • Personal Information Management • Collaboration and Sharing • Fun • Self Expression

Exercise • Tag vase with • Tag vase with stickies stickies • Fold them in half • Place them on the outside • Place them inside

Social Tagging • Social Hum • Object-centered sociality • Lowered barriers to participation • User-generated Innovation

Community Community Article Article submission submission Creating ' broadcast' Creating ' broadcast' content (messageboards) content (messageboards) Short commenting (eBay reviews; Friends Reunited) Votes/polls and tagging Reading web content, 'sending to a friend' Reading web content © BBC 2005 Current steps to participation Possible steps to participation

Geotagging • Marker tag • “geotagged” • Two machine tags • “geo:lat=54.5213” • “geo:long=-113.1323”

upcoming:event=171852 namespace : predicate = value clothing:size=quot;largequot; blog:via=quot;http://atomiq.orgquot; dc:title=quot;Taggingquot; geo:long=113.132

Read/Write Web • Simple read/write system for web applications: • RSS feeds for every tag • Tag any resource • Your web application is a database! • User-generated innovation

Exercise • Discuss tagging patterns • Your observations • Questions

Antisocial Tagging • Cold-start Problem • Messy Metadata • Vocal Minority • Bad Actors

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Trends • More structure • Better visualizations • Better algorithms • Niche solutions

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