Tonight I watched The Collectors on ABC TV - good to have the show back in 2008. One of the featured collections was the peg collection of Mike Bradley. Yes, that’s right, a collection of clothes pegs!
There were some really interesting moments (yes, truly) in this segment on pegs. Firstly, Mike Bradley was terrific at telling [...]
Filed under: People, Sociology, Storytelling, Tagging, Taxonomies | No Comments »
I want to conclude my blog summary from the presentation I gave last week on tagging and the enterprise. The previous three entries should be read in conjunction with this instalment, if you haven’t followed the story so far…
I used IBM’s dogear as an example of an enterprise using tagging within the firm. However, instead of me explaining all about [...]
Filed under: Communication, Content management, Folksonomies, Information use, Presentations, Publishing, RSS, Social computing, Tagging, Technology, The workplace, Web | No Comments »
My last two posts have been about tagging based on my presentation last week at the conference in Sydney, ”Enhancing search and retrieval capabilities and performance”.
I want to look at some of the perceived disadvantages of tagging that I briefly mentioned in my presentation:
Lack of specificity - refers to the fact that an item can have [...]
Filed under: Blogging, Conference, Folksonomies, Information use, Podcasting, Presentations, Searching, Social networking, Society, Tagging, Taxonomies, Technology, The workplace, Web | No Comments »
In the light of what I discussed yesterday with respect to my conference presentation on Tuesday, I want to move on to tagging. Tagging is essentially unstructured metadata that is assigned by the content creator and the readers/users of the content, the latter called collaborative tagging. The user-generated classification that emerges is called a folksonomy.
Examples of digital content using [...]
Filed under: Blogging, Conference, Folksonomies, Information use, Presentations, Searching, Social computing, Society, Tagging, Technology, The workplace, Web | 3 Comments »
Yesterday I gave a presentation at the Ark Group conference, “Enhancing search and retrieval capabilities and performance”, in Sydney. The presentation, called “Tagging and the enterprise”, is available to conference attendees and I am rejigging some of the slides to load up onto Slideshare.
There were two key points I tried to emphasise yesterday in a conference [...]
Filed under: Conference, Information use, Presentations, Searching, Society, Tagging, Technology, The workplace, Web | 1 Comment »
I did promise on Saturday that my next blog post would be on narrative, sensemaking, and the volunteering project. However, Doris Lessing did come between posts with an earlier blog post this afternoon.
Looking at my notes from the debrief from the volunteering project on Friday, I took this point from Dave Snowden’s introductory remarks on complexity and sensemaking, and [...]
Filed under: Cognitive science, Communication, Education & learning, Information use, Knowledge Management, Language, Networks, People, Social computing, Social networking, Storytelling, Tagging, The workplace | No Comments »
The latest issue of the e-journal, Information Research, is now available.
There are some really interesting papers, especially the paper by Marcia Bates on browsing behaviour and the paper by Judit Bar-Ilan on librarian blogs.
There are several book reviews too, including this one on David Weinberger’s book, Everything is miscellaneous (a book I am currently reading).
All [...]
Filed under: Blogging, Books, Business, Information Management, Information use, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Libraries, Management, Marketing, Research, Searching, Tagging | No Comments »
Chance encounters often reveal positive results. I came across this November 2006 blog post by Joshua Porter on why scale matters in tagging systems.
A point I want to tag onto (pun intended) is the one about the rights of the individual to tag anything with any tag the individual likes. Joshua illustrates with his comment [...]
Filed under: Collaboration, Economics, Folksonomies, Knowledge Management, Social networking, Tagging | 2 Comments »
I previously made some comments about tagging. I believe tagging has its place as does controlled vocabularies. John Udell’s blog post yesterday on tagging and foldering made the point that: “On the desktop as well as on the web, we’re in the midst of a long transition from container-based to query-based storage and retrieval”.
In container-based storage one [...]
Filed under: Content management, Folksonomies, Libraries, Photography, Tagging, Taxonomies | No Comments »
I have been giving some attention of late to tagging, partly because of some research I am doing for university, and partly in response to a challenge Matt Moore gave me a while back to start putting some of my photos up on Flickr.
A key feature of Flickr is tagging, but tagging has become much more [...]
Filed under: Collaboration, Content management, Folksonomies, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Social computing, Tagging, Taxonomies, Technology, Web | 1 Comment »
