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.
Recent historic data for the social tagging/bookmarking movement--timeline + visibility graph.
This short paper describes a novel technique for generating personalized tag recommendations for users of social book- marking sites such as del.icio.us. Existing techniques recommend tags on the basis of their popularity among the group of all users; on the basis of recent use; or on the basis of simple heuristics to extract keywords from the url being tagged. Our method is designed to...
Some papers on ontologies, folksonomies, and social bookmarking
Academically speaking, semantic search ought to be a system which understands both the user's query and the Web text using cognitive algorithms similar to that of the human brain, then brings results that are dead on target (right context) at first glance (not requiring to open the Web page for further investigation.) There are several ideas on how to build such a system.
David Weinberger's post about del.icio.us and IBM. (2005)
Definitive list of blogs to watch
What's a tag? Think of a tag as a simple category name. People can categorize their posts, photos and videos with any tag that makes sense.
If you want to be "found" these days you need to be "tagged." when you tag your post, people can easily find your blog information and you become a part of the "global web page" on your topic of interest.
RSS for Tags: tags + tagging
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.
Definitive list of blogs to watch
What's a tag? Think of a tag as a simple category name. People can categorize their posts, photos and videos with any tag that makes sense.
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