Comments on: articles on tagging (help?)

By: zephoria

zephoria — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:43:55 +0000

No summary but it got incorporated into a paper on tagging that Mor, Cameron, Marc and i wrote. If your curious, the conference version is called “Position Paper, Tagging, Taxonomy, Flickr, Article, ToRead” and it is currently up at: http://www.danah.org/papers/

By: Rene

Rene — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:22:35 +0000

Hi Danah,

Did you ever publish a summary on all this?

By: Prentiss Riddle

Prentiss Riddle — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:32:58 +0000

Looks like no one has mentioned The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging, Ellyssa Kroski’s thoughtful review from an LIS perspective.

By: Michael Gilbert

Michael Gilbert — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 11:17:10 +0000

You asked:

> I would also be stoked if anyone knows of any information
> management literature on the cultural underpinnings of
> keywords and indexing or anything involving collective action
> and librarianship in metadata. How do differences across
> libraries or across countries get resolved?

I recommend Sorting Things Out by Geoffrey Bowker & Susan Leigh Star. One of the key lessons of the book iis that the ongoing process of classification and reclassification, not just having a useful taxonomy, is itself one of the most powerful forms of knowledge building.

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:26:56 +0000

A little late to this party

Loosely Coupled Community/Nptech Tag
http://ext337.org/article/loosely-coupled-communities-and-the-nptech-tag

NPTECH Tag Playlist
http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/59925

By: Brian Caruso

Brian Caruso — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:50:32 +0000

D.J. Foskett 1980 “Thesaurus”
In Kent, Lancour, Daily (eds) Encyc. of Library and Information Science, v30, pp.416-462 also found in
Spark-Jones, Willet 1997 _Readings in Information Retrieval_

If you are interested in past practices similar to tagging you might want to look at this article about the use of the thesaurus concept in information retrieval.

By: Pietro Speroni

Pietro Speroni — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:50:57 +0000

I see Paolo have already added my entry to the list. And although the entry he listed is the main one I wrote on tags, it’s not the only, and mor eimportantly not the one that deals specifically with cultural changes. More than working to understand that (which is quite mathemathically oriented!) you might want to directly read:
tagclouds and cultural changes.

Have fun.
Pietro

By: frank winslow

frank winslow — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:56:11 +0000

You might be interested in the following blog by Otis Chichimichi. He has been analyzing and publishing the tagging behaviours of the Simpy.com bookmarking service. (I believe he is one of the creators of the Simpy.com site.)

http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/blog/

By: lilly nguyen

lilly nguyen — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:25:28 +0000

also forgot to add, if you go to dlib and do a query for “tag” there’s a whole list that pops up with some case studies on social bookmarking.

Here’s one:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/lund/04lund.html

By: lilly nguyen

lilly nguyen — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:13:53 +0000

Here are some links I’ve found posted on a Knowledge management board. It appears to have a respectable ref list for more digging.

Hammond, T., Hannay, T., Lund, B., Scott, J., Social Bookmarking Tools – A General Review, D-Lib Magazine, April 2005.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html

And here’s another wired article on tagging from Feb 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66456,00.html