1. InfoCamp Seattle 2012
You Say Tomato, I Say Aardvark:
Taxonomy/ Folksonomy Smackdown
By Tracy Wolfe

2. Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy
Controlled vs. uncontrolled
Generated by a professional or by the
user
Subjectivity of words
Interesting related projects

3. Exercise 1
Look at these six images and write down
the first five descriptive words that pop into
your head for each of them.
We’ll take ten minutes to apply tags.

4. Image 1

5. Image 2

6. Image 3

7. Image 4

8. Image 5

9. Image 6

10. Let’s Compare
We’ll take a few minutes to identify
commonalities and discrepancies in tags
applied to the 6 images…

11. Controlled Vocabulary

12. Combining Taxonomy & Tagging
Andromeda Yelton “I think librarians often
assume that, because they are based in
rules, controlled vocabulary offers
guarantees about metadata completeness
or correctness, and tagging cannot."

13. Steve Museum
http://www.steve.museum/
The Steve Museum Project researches social
tagging and museum collections; develops open
source software tools for tagging collections and
managing tags; and engages in discussion and
outreach with members of the community who
are interested in implementing social tagging for
their own collections.

14. Philadelphia Museum of Art
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/socialTaggin
 Users can add their own tags to the online collection.
Each item has a base record of necessary information
like the title, artist, date, collection, etc. However, by
allowing users to add tags, the museum can find out how
people really search for these items, encourage
interaction with the collection, and make the whole
experience a little social.

15. Digitalkoot
http://www.digitalkoot.fi/en/splash
In conjunction with Microtask, a company
dedicated to distributed work via the internet, the
National Library of Finland dreamed up two
games - Mole Bridge and Mole Hunt - both
focused on correcting errors in OCR.

16. Libraries and User Tags
http://www.bibliocommons.com/
www.spl.org
http://www.serialssolutions.com/aquabrowser/
http://denverlibrary.org/

17. “Professional” Crowdsourcing
Amazon Mechanical Turk
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
clickworker
http://www.clickworker.com/en/2011/08/25/english-
george-eastman-house-taps-clickworker-for-iconic-
global-crowdsourcing-project/
 microtask
http://www.microtask.com/

18. Harvesting the Power of the Crowd
Brainstorm hybrid uses and solutions
Discuss automated metadata

19. Contact or Follow Me
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tracyguza
@Mod_Librarian
www.tracyguza.com
http://modlibrarian.posterous.com/
Tracy.Guza@corbis.com