The document discusses using social tagging to help discover learning resources across different languages and repositories. It proposes that tagging can create new link structures between resources and support social information retrieval approaches to improve cross-boundary discovery. The author's PhD research analyzes the ecology of tagging, how it interacts with traditional metadata, and how it can support multilingual resource sharing.

1. Social tagging and learning resources in a multilingual context CELSTEC/NELL colloquium June 4 2009 Riina Vuorikari

10. Learning Resource Exchange for schools http://lreforschools.eun.org Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009 Conventional search «From teachers to teachers» Tags in multiple languages Ratings and comments by the European Commission’s eContentplus Programme

11. Tagging as a conceptual tool for co-construction of knowledge Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari Add to Favourites Add a tag

12. Tagging for co-construction of knowledge Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari Digital traces to follow!

13. by Stiphy “ Social” makes trails visible..

14. and guides the way

15. Activity system (Cole and Engeström, 1991)

18. Exploratory study into tagging: resources through tags Resources with user tag «interactive» Tag «interactive» Vuorikari, R., & Ochoa, X. (2009). Exploratory Analysis of the Main Characteristics of Tags and Tagging of Educational Resources in a Multi-lingual Context. Journal of Digital Information, 10(2). http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/447.

19. Resource provider Tag «optics» Exploratory study into tagging: content from providers connected through tags

20. Exploratory study into tagging: users from different countries connected through tags Austria Hungary Finland Resource that «Travels well»

22. Users interact differently with tags (*) - tag but don’t use for search - tag and search - only search - don’t tag nor search

26. Link-structures that did not exist before: descriptor - LOM

31. Conclusions

32. Epistemological level - how tagging can support discovery - creation of new ways to interact with the discovery process, i.e. SIR

33. Methodological level - new methods for structuring the communication in the context: tags

34. Social assistance level -new forms of assistance to correspond better to communities needs (e.g. own vocabularies, topical and lingual tag clouds)

35. social bookmarks Metadata LOM tags folksonomy ecology multi-linguality social classification thanks ! for your attention learning resources Tags user communities resource discovery questions ? teachers social navigation social traces paths , trails http://elgg.ou.nl/rvu