Here are some links to articles and projects related to folksonomy and
tagging (curtesy of Susie Stephenson at SLAIS, UBC). Penn Library has an
interesting project going on. There are also some experiments in
displaying controlled vocabulary as tag clouds.
academic library explores tagging
http://tinyurl.com/pelnu
PennTags
http://tags.library.upenn.edu/
This is an example of a catalogue record with tags, scroll to the bottom of the page to see annotations and tags.
http://tinyurl.com/mav74
http://www.library.upenn.edu/blos/staffweb/newtech/tagging
PennTags - When card catalogs meet tags
http://tinyurl.com/jaxw4
Thread from web4lib list:
http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/web4lib/2006-March/039929.html
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/day=20060310
Social Bookmarking And Tagging At Academic Libraries
http://acrlblog.org/2006/01/02/social-bookmarking-and-tagging-at-academic-libraries/
Tag clouds as an OPAC interface
http://tinyurl.com/fqgqs
Martha Gonzalez
MLIS student, SLAIS UBC
-----Original Message-----
>From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Ursula Kolmstetter
>Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 12:23 PM
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>Subject: [ARLIS-L] Folksonomy
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>Dear Arlis/NA friends,
>What is the general thinking of folksonomy, which is a form of mostly unstructured, user created metadata? Some museums started using folksonomy (see: steve.museum project). I wondered if anybody has experiences with it.
>
>Best regards,
>Ursula Kolmstetter
>
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