A presentation about the strengths and limitations of taxonomies and folksonomies, with a brief history of library automation thrown in for good measure.

1. defragging taxonomies and folksonomies Karen G. Schneider College Center for Library Automation Tallahassee, Florida

3. library use: and/and/and Circ, Holdings, FTE 0 200,000 400,000 600,000 800,000 1,000,000 1,200,000 1,400,000 1,600,000 Circulation 1,243,447 1,330,906 1,380,000 1,080,000 1,098,983 1,293,864 1,451,417 1,400,000 1,388,342 1,301,582 Holdings 968,268 998,446 1,029,515 1,086,402 1,116,642 1,146,127 1,210,127 FTEs 238,348 236,256 234,962 235,527 244,558 267,486 285,128 297,795 294,818 287,714 FY9697 FY9798 FY9899 FY9900 FY0001 FY0102 FY0203 FY0304 FY0405 FY0506

4. a brief history of library automation

14. “ disconnected data silos with non-usable content”

15. worldcat : 1 billion records

16. learning from taxonomies

17. classic problems in authority control spell-check stemming synonyms phrases anachronisms

18. disambiguation

19. Definition

21. expertise can be efficient

22. topic depth (faceting/subdivisions)

23. lessons from folksonomies

25. don’t scare off your workforce

26. in the short term, satisficing trumps perfecting

27. In 2006, 400 catalogers at the Library of Congress cataloged 350,000 “volumes.” That’s 1,400 records per workday, or 3.5 records per person, per day.

28. Tagging is about (re)discovery and (re)use, not (just) description

29. Tagging is about building data, not records

30. folksonomies grow good metadata

31. 90% of Flickr content falls into 6 different types of facets: place (40% of tags), events , dates, people, things/animals, color

32. some basic rules about cataloging appear instinctive

33. Useless critiques of folksonomies

34. problems common to taxonomies and folksonomies tags * time = crud scalability (onesies vs. noise)

35. uber-folksonomies

36. wikipedia

37. Librarything for Libraries librarything ltfl

38. Librarians’ Internet Index lii.org

39. librarians’ delicious collections Canadian Assumption College California Law

40. incentivizing uberization: handprints and mirrors

41. AIM/email: [email_address] twitter: kgs facebook: K.G. Schneider doppler: freerangelibrarian blog: freerangelibrarian.com WorldCat Identity: http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/lccn-n95-110807