Nyla2007 Tag It

Tag It! Social Bookmarking and Tagging Sara Greenleaf Hobart and William Smith Colleges

First Disclaimer We’re going environmentally friendly this year regarding handouts.

Second Disclaimer I’m a cataloger, not a programmer.

Tagging Introduces a human element to Internet  resource retrieval Allows people to organize resources in ways  that are meaningful to them

Tagging Keywords or phrases assigned  Natural language  Personal context and meaning  Syntax according to site or resource  User-developed innovative methods and  complex structures

Tagging Personal Inaccurate   Natural language Inconsistent   On-demand Variants for the same   term or phrase As-needed  Harry Potter  harrypotter  HarryPotter!  HP 

Tag Cloud Visual represenation of a group of tags  Usually alphabetical  Font sizes and depth of color vary by frequency of  use

Folksonomy “…people tagging information so that they can come back it themselves or so that others with the same vocabulary can find it.” --Thomas Vander Wal.

Broad Folksonomy Many people tagging one resource  Deep description  Enhances the likelihood of retrieval 

Del.icio.us Social bookmarking site  Links saved online  Tagging  Shared with other users  Sorting and organization  Example of broad folksonomy 

Narrow Folksonomy Tagging of individual items (example:  photographs) Many items tagged by few users  Description not as deep (shallow) 

Flickr Photo sharing site  User post photos  Tags used to describe photos  Example of narrow folksonomy 

Tagging - organization in the hands of the public

LibraryThing Cataloging of books (and other resources)  Easy entry  Searches Amazon.com, Library of Congress, etc.  Tagging  Social connections  Books  Tags 

Tagging in Library Catalogs

Ann Arbor District Library Social networking features added to catalog  = SOPAC Tagging  Script associated with patron account and drupal  http://www.aadl.org/services/devblog/downloads 

Danbury Public Library LibraryThing for Libraries  Data from Library Thing integrated using a widget  Tags display in catalog record  Additional tag browser  Includes “similar books” 

Bowdoin College LibraryThing for Libraries 

Tagging Library Resources Using del.icio.us

Delany Library Secondary school in Australia  Years 7 - 12  Uses del.icio.us for web resources  Includes notes on use  Bundled by subject  Includes grade level 

Thunder Bay Public Library Del.icio.us tags rolled onto Web site  Browseable alphabetically  Tag cloud 

MIT Libraries Uses del.icio.us to integrate virtual reference  site

Tagging Library Resources Other Methods/Uses

Penn Tags Similar to del.icio.us  Limited to University of Pennsylvania users  Includes links to journal articles and catalog  records Organize links into projects 

Edmonton Public Library Tag cloud created  Subject resource page titles  Infofile titles 

Duke University Libraries Promotes Connotea for online reference  management Export to EndNote  OpenURL set-up  Duke University Libraries group 

Advanced Tagging

Geotagging Tags indicating geographical metadata  Latitude  Longitude  Altitude 

Tagging Experts James Melzer  “The Best of del.icio.us,” Nov. 2005  http://jamesmelzer.com/bearings/?p=68 

Characteristics of Expert Users Detailed descriptions  Clusters  Hierarchical strings  Ratings  Uses of certain tags:  Source information (via:person)  Subject time periods  Resource types (=resource_type)  Publication names (in:publication_name) 

Questions? Thank you!

Nyla2007 Tag It

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