Part 1 of the Social Tags and Music Information Retrieval Tutorial. Abstract: Social Tags are free text labels that are applied to items such as artists, playlists and songs. These tags have the potential to have a positive impact on music information retrieval research. In this tutorial we describe the state of the art in commercial and research social tagging systems for music. We explore some of the motivations for tagging. We describe the factors that affect the quantity and quality of collected tags. We present a toolkit that MIR researchers can use to harvest and process tags. We look at how tags are collected and used in current commercial and research systems. We explore some of the issues and problems that are encountered when using tags. We present current MIR-related research centered on social tags and suggest possible areas of exploration for future resear

2. Speaker – Paul Lamere

3. Speaker – Elias Pampalk

5. What are social tags? Word Clouds created with Wordle.net

6. Social Tags - Delicious.com

7. Social Tags - Flickr.com

8. Social Tags - LibraryThing

9. What is Deerhoof? Flickr photo by graciepoo

10. What is Deerhoof?

16. What are social tags? Some characteristics of social tags J. Furner, M. Smith, and M. Winget. Collaborative indexing of cultural resources: Some outstanding issues.

20. What are social tags? Example: Amazon

21. What are social tags? Example: MyStrands

22. What are social tags? Example: imeem

23. What are social tags? Example: Freesound

44. [Paul Lamere, JNMR 2008] What are social tags? Tagging Frequencies by Category

45. [Paul Lamere, JNMR 2008] [Klaas Bosteels et al., ISMIR 2008] Multi-tag search queries 51% 7% 4% 2% 5% 26% Time 3% Other 2% What are social tags? Tagging vs. Search Frequencies

47. What are social tags? Number of words per tag [Levy & Sandler, JNMR 2008]

50. [Paul Lamere, JNMR 2008] Artist rank (wrt number of tags applied, 1-1000) Number of tags applied What are social tags? Distribution of tags

53. What are social tags? Age vs. Tagging Behaviour Preliminary results! http://mir-research.blogspot.com/2008/06/lastfms-api-python-and-tagging_29.html

56. Why do people tag? Traditional categorization is hard R. Sinha. Tagging – From Personal to Social http://rashmisinha.com/2006/03/12/my-slides-for-tagging-20-panel-at-sxsw/

57. Why do people tag? Tagging is simpler R. Sinha. Tagging – From Personal to Social http://rashmisinha.com/2006/03/12/my-slides-for-tagging-20-panel-at-sxsw/

58. Why do people tag? Memory and Context

59. Why do people tag? Task Organization

60. Why do people tag? Opinion Expression / Social Signaling

62. Why do people tag? Play and Competition Squared Circle by shutterBRI by plamere

86. Issues with social tags Abuse example: Paris Hilton

96. Other sources of tags Games – Tag a Tune http://www.gwap.com/gwap/gamesPreview/tagatune/

98. Other sources of tags Games – Major Miner http://majorminer.com/

100. http://majorminer.com/search/ Other sources of tags Games – Major Miner

101. Other sources of tags Games – The Listen Game http://www.listengame.org/

104. Other sources of tags Games – Herd It "Herd It connects players in real-time and they listen to the same music clip. While they listen, various fun minigames quiz the players on opinions and trivia about the music. Players earn points based on the agreement of their answers with the group consensus." - Luke Barrington

105. Other sources of tags Games – Moose6 – A BBC Prototype

108. Other sources of tags Experts/Surveys – All Music Guide

110. Other sources of tags Experts/Surveys – All Music Guide