Edtags presentation at NECC 2008
Over the past year or two, I’ve been delighted to notice educators and librarians embracing Delicious both as a way to share bookmarks with each other and a way to help their students and patrons learn. This makes perfect sense to me as a college student because I bookmark and tag references for all my projects and I’d love to see similar collections from my professors and classmates.
Good resources for social tagging and social bookmarking
danah boyd's articles on social tagging, tagging, and social bookmarking.
What Peter seems to be proposing is a smaller community where the members all know one another, and those that are not known are not given much weight by the voting system. I think Peter is right, for the community at large, this does sound like too much work to do, sort of like a giant public key exchange, where the web of trust evaporates as the network grows.
Can you imagine the on-line world without del.icio.us, reddit, digg, dzone and other Web2.0 social bookmarking sites? Sure, you can - they were not always around and nobody missed them before they appeared. However, since their debut, I guess no serious geek can exist without them anymore. The functionality and information richness these sites offer is unquestionable - however, there are more and more flaws and problems popping out as people learn to use, monetize, abuse, trick and tweak them. I would like to present my current compilation of woes and worries, sprinkled with a few suggestions on how to handle them.
This research presents a case study on the use of Social Tagging in an undergraduate classroom at the University of Michigan during the Fall 2005 semester. Students were between 20 and 22 years of age. Students tagged their individual blog posts to contribute to themes and conversations in an online learning environment. Using content analysis of the blog posts and tags as well as semi-structured interviews, the study examines the role of online social tagging for tracking and aiding group knowledge formation.
This is a fancy-schmacy social bookmarking/bibliography site for academics. It is similar to Edtags, but spans various disciplines and integrates a bunch of wonderful functionality.
Most of the current methodologies for building ontologies rely on specialized knowledge engineers. This is in contrast to real-world settings, where the need for maintenance of domain specific ontologies emerges in the daily work of users. But in order to allow for participatory ontology engineering,we need to have a more realistic conceptual model of how ontologies develop in the real world.