1. Finding the Stuff Again

2. social bookmarking

5. collaboration

6. ( for:somebody )

7. distributed teamwork

8. personal research wrangling

10. This means you have to tag.

11. Tags are easy.

12. Simple

13. Flexible

14. Can be aggregated

18. Taxonomy
v
Folksonomy

19. taxonomy (n): 1. the practice and science
of classification.

20. folksonomy (n): 1. bottom-up
classification systems.
2. the practice and method of
collaboratively creating and
managing tags to annotate and
categorize content.

21. Why folksonomies?

22. Evolving nomenclatures

23. Dynamic information

24. Space for
multiple viewpoints

25. Caveat: messy.

26. Example:

29. image collection

30. how to tag?

31. rnc, RNC, RNC08,
2008RNC, Republican
National Convention

32. Simplify through:
• no caps
• no punctuation
• basic terms

33. 4 tag types

34. Descriptive
Resource
Ownership / Source
Self-reference

36. photo, rnc08, protest,
protester, peaceful protest,
police response, riot squad,
riot gear, keith smith,
teenager, prayer wheel
minnesota independent
paul demko
krista