Abstract. Social bookmark tools are rapidly emerging on the Web. In such systems users are setting up lightweight conceptual structures called folksonomies.
The reason for their immediate success is the fact that no specific skills are needed for participating. In this paper we specify a formal model for folksonomies and
briefly describe our own system BibSonomy, which allows for sharing...
Social bookmarking in digital library systems: framework and case study: International Conference on Digital Libraries archive Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Digital libraries.
What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale,
or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every
book—a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.
Michael Hemment is Research Librarian and Head of Scholarly Research Initiatives at Widener Library, here at Harvard University. Recently, MediaBerkman producer Colin Rhinesmith sat down with Michael to discuss a number of pressing issues in the research field. Download the audio podcast (time: 22:55). In this Internet
Some papers on ontologies, folksonomies, and social bookmarking
Folksonomies and social tagging are an often cited example of Web 2.0, but what are they actually? How does social bookmarking differ from conventional bookmarks and what do folksonomies constitute of?
Tagging, folksonomy, distributed classification, ethnoclassification—however it is labelled, the concept of users creating and aggregating their own metadata is gaining ground on the internet. This literature review briefly defines the topic at hand, looking at current implementations and summarizing key advantages and disadvantages of distributed classification systems with reference to prominent folksonomy commentators.
C&RL News, February 2007 Vol. 68, No. 2: Suppose you are starting to research a current topic—wikis in the library or new developments in electronic resources management, perhaps. You have some current books on the subject and have printed a few articles off the library databases. But much of the most current information is on the Internet, in blogs and news articles, or maybe on the sites of libr
David Weinberger's flattering post about social tagging initiatives at Harvard (in which he plays a huge role). Edtags is mentioned!
This is an extensive post, revealing the results of a statistical comparison between Amazon and LibraryThing tags, and exploring why tagging has turned out relatively poorly for Amazon. I end by making concrete recommendations for ecommerce sites interested in making tagging work.
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Abstract. Social bookmark tools are rapidly emerging on the Web. In such systems users are setting up lightweight conceptual structures called folksonomies. The reason for their immediate success is the fact that no specific skills are needed for participating. In this paper we specify a formal model for folksonomies and briefly describe our own system BibSonomy, which allows for sharing...
What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book—a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.
C&RL News, February 2007 Vol. 68, No. 2: Suppose you are starting to research a current topic—wikis in the library or new developments in electronic resources management, perhaps. You have some current books on the subject and have printed a few articles off the library databases. But much of the most current information is on the Internet, in blogs and news articles, or maybe on the sites of libr
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