10. Current Conversation
Kwan, Yi, and Chan Lois Mai. 2009. "Linking folksonomy to
Library of Congress subject headings: an exploratory
study." Journal Of Documentation 65, no. 6:
872-900.
Compared social tags in Delicious to LCSH
“60.9 percent of the tags fall in the category of complete-
word match with at least one subject heading in the subject
authority file.”
12. Current Conversation
Thomas, Marliese, Dana M. Caudle, and Cecilia Schmitz.
"Trashy tags: problematic tags in LibraryThing."
New Library World 111, no. 5/6 (July 2010):
223-235.
“In particular, lexical anomalies (e.g. grammatical
variations) and lack of synonym, homonym, and
homograph control could result in a high probability of
noise and recall in users’ search results at the expense of
retrieval precision, making it difficult to pull together
similar or related resources.” (emphasis mine)
18. Using Tags
Think Unlimited
Go beyond the individual item
Connect to the collection in a new way
Adding NL to the OPAC
Objective v. Subjective (The Best…)
23. What Book Am I?
• New York (N.Y.) — Fiction
• Runaway Teenagers — Fiction
24. What Book Am I?
• New York (N.Y.) — Fiction
• Runaway Teenagers — Fiction
• Caulfield, Holden (Fictitious Character) — Fictio
25. What Book Am I?
• New York (N.Y.) — Fiction
• Runaway Teenagers — Fiction
• Caulfield, Holden (Fictitious Character) — Fictio
• Runaway Teenagers — New York (State) — N
27. What Movie Am I?
• Feature Films
• World War, 1939-1945 — Refugees — Drama
28. What Movie Am I?
• Feature Films
• World War, 1939-1945 — Refugees — Drama
• Morocco — History — 20th Century — Drama
29. What Movie Am I?
• Feature Films
• World War, 1939-1945 — Refugees — Drama
• Morocco — History — 20th Century — Drama
• World War, 1939-1945 — Underground Movements —
34. Books That Were Evaluated
• A Death in the Family • White Fang
• My Antonia • Moby Dick
• The Last of the Mohicans • Tropic of Cancer
• The Red Badge of Courage • The Moviegoer
• An American Tragedy • Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe
• Invisible Man • The Catcher in the Rye
• Light in August • The Grapes of Wrath
• The Great Gatsby • Uncle Tom's Cabin
• So Big • The Magnificent Ambersons
• The Sun Also Rises • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Their Eyes Were Watching God • Slaughterhouse-five
• On the Road • The Optimist's Daughter
• One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest • Miss Lonelyhearts
• To Kill A Mockingbird • The Age of Innocence
• Babbitt • Native Son
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38. The Data:
LCSH Tags
147 Subject Headings 191 Tags
4.9 SH/Book 6.4 Tags/Book
Highest # - 11 SH Highest # - 59
93.3% Have SH 73.3 Have Tags
2 Books with 0 SH 8 Books with 0 SH
39. The Data: The Age of Innocents
LCSH
• Love Stories
Tags
• Domestic Fiction
• Separated People — Fiction • 1001-list
• Manners and Customs — Fiction
Triangles (Interpersonal Relations) — Fiction books made into movies
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•
• Marriage — New York (State) • new york city
— New York — Fiction
• Upper Class — New York (State) — • pulitzer prize winner
New York — Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) • romantic
— Social Life and Customs — Fiction
• Man-woman Relationships — New York (State) • tuesday afternoon book group
— New York — Fiction
• United States — Social Life and Customs — turn-of-the-century
•
19th Century
40. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• si-fi • empathy
• technology • sci-fi
• science fiction • stark
• distopia • science fiction
• dark • dark
• blade runner • grim
• androids • unpredictable
• reality • bleak
• social commentary • androids
• science fiction • future
• androids • love
41. What about World Wars?
• World War – 104 • WWII – 50
• WWI – 20 • WW II – 13
• WW I – 2 • WW2 – 8
• WW1 – 2 • War World 2 – 19
• World War I – 16 • World War II – 61
• World War 1 – 4 • World War 2 – 19
• First World War - 2 • Second World War – 2
53. Who Can Benefit?
• Alternative Publishers
• Web Born Publications
• Sub Genres
• Readings Levels
• Current Events
• Multidisciplinary Books
• Reader Advisory