Using Social Networking Tags in a Library Setting Keith Kisser July 9, 2008

Social Networking Tags User based classification Tags don’t replace traditional cataloging, they enhance it

User based classification

Tags don’t replace traditional cataloging, they enhance it

Folksonomy “ The practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.”* How people organize data on a personal level *From Wikipedia

“ The practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.”*

How people organize data on a personal level

*From Wikipedia

Web 1.0 The Library as a point of access to the Internet

The Library as a point of access

to the Internet

Web 2.0 The Internet as a point of access to the Library

The Internet as a point of access

to the Library

Tags are part of the Web Keep track of your favorite sites and content across multiple platforms Users define their own needs and wants

Keep track of your favorite sites and content across multiple platforms

Users define their own needs and wants

3 ways Tags can be used in a library: Del. icio .us LibraryThing Flickr

Del. icio .us

LibraryThing

Flickr

Organize websites and web content Self-generated categories Based on common subjects and categories

Organize websites and web content

Self-generated categories

Based on common subjects and categories

Bundles organize tags Tags

Del.icio.us in the library Useful for library staff Cross-platform research

Useful for library staff

Cross-platform research

Catalog your personal library Tags ranked by popularity Ratings and Reviews like Amazon.com

Catalog your personal library

Tags ranked by popularity

Ratings and Reviews like Amazon.com

Users select the way they view content

LibraryThing Record

Tags display in Item Record LibraryThing in the OPAC

Organize, share and print your photos online Also uses tags Allows comments for individual photos Users create albums or collections

Organize, share and print your photos online

Also uses tags

Allows comments for individual photos

Users create albums or collections

Comments allow for users to contribute information

Flickr and Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing – “taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call.”* faculty, staff, students and the general public contribute additional information *From Wikipedia

Crowdsourcing – “taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call.”*

faculty, staff, students and the general public contribute additional information

*From Wikipedia

Flickr as an extension of the library catalog Display exhibitions and special collections Expands access Add links in the OPAC

Display exhibitions and special collections

Expands access

Add links in the OPAC

Not everyone is a cataloger — This is a good thing Tagging is familiar Patrons contribute to the collection Customizable

Tagging is familiar

Patrons contribute to the collection

Customizable

Tags in the Library Introduces the idea of the library catalog as a tool people already use, not something alien and weird that requires special powers

Introduces the idea of the library catalog as a tool people already use, not something alien and weird that requires special powers

Works Cited Mercado, Andrea. LibraryTechtonics: Tagging on Flickr & del.icio.us. http://www. librarytechtonics .info/archives/2005/10/tagging_on_flic.html Fister, Barbara. Acrlog: LibraryThing for (Academic) Libraries. http://acrlog.org/2008/03/08/library-thing-for-academic-libraries/ Anon. LibraryThing for Libraries. http://www.librarything.com/forlibraries/ Rethlefsen, Melissa. Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us - 9/15/2007 - Library Journal. Library Journal. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6476403.html Wenzler, John. 2007. LibraryThing and the Library Catalog: Adding Collective Intelligence to the OPAC. CARL NITIG, September 7. online.sfsu.edu/~jwenzler/research/LTFL.pdf West, Jessamyn. librarian.net : IL05 : 24oct05. http://www.librarian.net/talks/flickr/

Mercado, Andrea. LibraryTechtonics: Tagging on Flickr & del.icio.us. http://www. librarytechtonics .info/archives/2005/10/tagging_on_flic.html

Fister, Barbara. Acrlog: LibraryThing for (Academic) Libraries.

http://acrlog.org/2008/03/08/library-thing-for-academic-libraries/

Anon. LibraryThing for Libraries.

http://www.librarything.com/forlibraries/

Rethlefsen, Melissa. Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us - 9/15/2007 - Library Journal. Library Journal.

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6476403.html

Wenzler, John. 2007. LibraryThing and the Library Catalog: Adding Collective Intelligence to the OPAC. CARL NITIG, September 7. online.sfsu.edu/~jwenzler/research/LTFL.pdf

West, Jessamyn. librarian.net : IL05 : 24oct05.

http://www.librarian.net/talks/flickr/

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