Tagging: What's Next (Voices That Matter 2008)

Slide 1: Tagging: What’s Next? Voices That Matter June 12, 2008 Nashville, TN

Slide 2: A bit about me... User Experience Consultant Edmonton, Canada Speaker Blogger Author

Slide 7: Vertical Filing Colour TV Source: New York Times

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Slide 18: User Resource Tags

Slide 19: What’s Next?

Slide 20: Trends • More Structure • Automanual Folksonomies • Leveraging Communities • Sparking Innovation

Slide 21: More Structure

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Slide 24: Sticky Not Sticky

Slide 26: User Resource Resource Tags

Slide 27: Artist Artist CD CD CD Metadata from songs can be aggregated to describe albums and artists. http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/09/how_to_build_on_bubbleup_folksonomies/

Slide 32: Leveraging Communities

Slide 37: “humor” vs “humour” American Spelling British Spelling Jon Stewart Douglas Adams David Sedaris Terry Pratchett The Onion P.G. Wodehouse Douglas Adams Bill Bryson

Slide 38: Automanual Folksonomies

Slide 46: Tim Spalding

Slide 47: Combine Tags Reduce noise & collapse obvious synonyms Tag Mash Arbitrary tag combinations & weighting Tagsonomies Use tag combinations to Evergreen replicate categories Categories

Slide 48: “I notice a hesitance toward hard-coded semantics and manual work—people think these things won’t scale. I learned to mix it up... a small amount semantics on top of minimal structure can work wonders.” Peter Van Dijck

Slide 49: Sparking Innovation

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Slide 55: Flickr Innovation Flickr Users Useful Tools Dan Catt Job at Flickr Developers New API Methods

Slide 58: Trends • More Structure • Automanual Folksonomies • Leveraging Communities • Sparking Innovation

Slide 59: “When the hype wears down... I think tagging will have altered the information landscape in a fundamental way” Jon Udell

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