UIE-Tagging-Taxonomy-03-10-10

Tagging with Folksonomies in a Taxonomy World! Stephanie Lemieux! Earley & Associates! March 10, 2010! UIE Virtual Seminar!

It’s social User control over findability Emergent structure (folksonomy) Why is tagging so interesting?! Flexible and It’s easy personal language And cheap! 2

The downside? 3   Neither tags nor taggers are perfect… Misspellings Taxnonomy Plam pilot Compound words TimBernersLee Case & number Folksonomy, Folksonomies Personal tags To read My dog @work Single-use tags Billybobsdog

surfing Designing for tag gers 4

Tagging behind the firewall 5 Lower Value Higher Value (More difficult to access) (Easier to access) Unfiltered Reviewed/Vetted/Approved Links Policies External News Best Practices Reports Discussion Success postings Engineering Stories Approved Message document Methods text repositories Lower Cost Tagging/Organizing Processes Higher Cost

Taxonomy! Folksonomy! Oversight User Terms Consistency Low Cost Social Structure Flexibility Findability Goodness! 6

4 styles of hybrids 7 Tag- Co- influenced existence taxonomy Taxonomy- Tag influenced hierarchies tags

Tagging with Folksonomies in a Taxonomy World! UIE Virtual Seminar March 10, 2010 Stephanie Lemieux Taxonomy Practice Lead Earley & Associates stephanie@earley.com www.earley.com

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