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Folksonomy and Social Tagging

Blending Folksonomy & Taxonomy
September 26, 2007

What if we let users drive the taxonomy? There is a lot of dialogue and research being conducted on folksonomies - also known as social tagging. Is it effective? How can we use folksonomy in the corporate environment? This session covers recent research analyzing the practice of user tagging and discusses a project at MITRE launched to assess the the value and utility of social bookmarking on a corporate intranet.

Laurie Damianos
, Emma Tonkin
, Seth Earley

Cost: $50.00
Social Tagging
July 26, 2006

Tagging, when part of a large complex system, can contribute to the emergence of knowledge. But tagging alone is not sufficient. Intelligence emerges between chaos and control, and the ideal balance between both is needed. This session compares formal taxonomies with social tagging, covers issues in designing tagging systems, and provides ways to get people to create better tags.

Seth Earley
, Rashmi Sinha

Cost: $50.00