For those of you interesting in the junction of social tagging and controlled vocabularies, this email exchange appeared on the metadatalibrarians list. I wasn't following the DC Social Tagging group but it sure looks like their wiki has some interesting stuff.
Sherman Clarke
New York University Libraries
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>From Sarah Currier <[log in to unmask]>
Sent Thursday, September 25, 2008 8:44 am
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Subject Re: [Metadatalibrarians] folksonomy authorities?
Hi Karen,
See the EnTag project in the UK:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/enhanced-tagging/
Also, there are some interesting projects that have been presented at
the past few Dublin Core Conferences (including two presented today- I'm
at the Conference in Berlin!- check both the papers and the posters from
this conference: http://dc2008.de/ )- also check out the DC Social
Tagging Community http://dublincore.org/groups/social-tagging/ and
follow the link there to their wiki. It might be best to join their
email list and ask your question there.
Good luck! It's an interesting area and there is a growing variety of
work happening from a library perspective.
Sarah
Karen Benko wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am still in the early stages of learning about this metadata stuff.
> I have a question about the tension between user-generated tags and
> centrally-controlled vocabulary. I've seen library catalogs that use
> both, but I worry that given both, users will prefer the tags since
> they are new & interesting, and also usually are more noticeable on
> the screen. And yet, of course we should have the best of both
> options, if we can get it.
>
> I've been thinking that it would be interesting to try user generated
> *cross-references* in centrally-controlled authority records (which
> probably wouldn't be called authority records but that's the only
> phrase I know for them). So rather than tag the item, a user could tag
> the heading from the controlled vocabulary. Rather than add "accents"
> to _My fair lady_, the could add "accents" to "Speech and social
> status" and "English language--Dialects--Morphology." Someone else
> might add "accents" to "Vietnamese language--Spelling." Then a search
> on that tag would bring up all items with that heading or those
> headings assigned. If the same tag were applied to multiple headings,
> the results could be grouped according to the applicable heading.
>
> Given my inexperience, I doubt I can be the first person to have
> thought of this. Does anyone on the list know of its ever being tried?
> I would like to read about any attempts, successful or unsuccessful,
> but I have no idea where to even begin looking.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
>
> Karen
>
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