Tagging: Emerging Trends WebVisions May
23, 2008 Portland, OR

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

Question: When was metadata invented?

Vertical Filing Colour TV Source:
New York Times

vs.

Volume
Time

Volume
Time
?

User Resource
Tags

What’s Next?

Trends • More Structure •
Automanual Folksonomies • Leveraging Communities • Sparking Innovation

More Structure

Structure

Sticky
Not Sticky

User Resource
Resource
Tags

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/

Leveraging
Communities

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

Automanual
Folksonomies

Tim Spalding

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

“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

Sparking
Innovation

Any Text
String
Write Read

geotagged Marker Tag geo:lat=54.1423 geo:long=-113.1232
} Machine Tags namespace : key = value clothing:size=”large” blog:via=”http://atomiq.org” upcoming:event=266399

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

Trends • More Structure •
Automanual Folksonomies • Leveraging Communities • Sparking Innovation

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

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