Published by rwatstein September 27th, 2008
in tagging and OCLC.
You and your users can now keep track of your favorite items in WorldCat through tags—keywords that help you classify or describe an item. Tags are displayed in search results lists and may help you find similar items or organize items in a way that makes sense to you. You can add as many tags as you would like to an unlimited set of items. You can view and maintain all of your personalized tags from your WorldCat profile page. Plus, you can also browse items using the tags other people have contributed. To tag an item, you must log in to your WorldCat account or register to create an account. Tags are tied to individual WorldCat account profiles, and not the main WorldCat.org index—so these new tags will not interfere with “official” library cataloging of an item. Log in to WorldCat.org and start tagging!
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Tagcow is a newly launched photo tagging service that is generating a lot of buzz for the way it categorizes photos, allowing people to quickly find their favorite images of family members, pets, natural landmarks and more. Basically, it makes massive numbers of photos housed on Flickr or in a personal photo folder easily searchable by what appears in the photo.
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Published by rwatstein September 15th, 2007
in libraries, social sites and tagging.
Folksonomies have the potential to add much value to public library catalogues by enabling clients to: store, maintain, and organize items of interest in the catalogue using their own tags. The purpose of this pape is to examine how the tags that constitute folksonomies are structured. Tags were acquired over a thirty-day period from the daily tag logs of three folksonomy sites, Del.icio.us, Furl, and Technorati. The tags were evaluated against section 6 (choice and form of terms) of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) guidelines for the construction of controlled vocabularies.
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Published by rwatstein June 25th, 2007
in web 2.0 and tagging.
Mark Gibbs writes: “Give most people a blog or a web page and a field named ‘tags,’ and they’ll start stuffing in text with wild abandon in the hopes that their content will be easily found by people who are desperately searching for information and opinion on feline hairball cures or cycling in the Ozarks or whatever their particular hobby is. Alas, all these folks are doing is polluting the Web.”…
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