Patterns and Inconsistencies in Collaborative Tagging Systems : An Examination of Tagging Practices

Kipp, Margaret E.I. and Campbell, D. Grant Patterns and Inconsistencies in Collaborative Tagging Systems : An Examination of Tagging Practices., 2006 . In American Society of Information Science & Technology Annual Conference 2006, Austin, Texas (US), 3-8 November 2006. (Unpublished) [Presentation]

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This paper analyzes the tagging patterns exhibited by users of del.icio.us, to assess how collaborative tagging supports and enhances traditional ways of classifying and indexing documents. Using frequency data and co-word analysis matrices analyzed by multi-dimensional scaling, the authors discovered that tagging practices to some extent work in ways that are continuous with conventional indexing. Small numbers of tags tend to emerge by unspoken consensus, and inconsistencies follow several predictable patterns that can easily be anticipated. However, the tags also indicated intriguing practices relating to time and task which suggest the presence of an extra dimension in classification and organization, a dimension which conventional systems are unable to facilitate. (The paper is available from http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00008315/)

Item type:	Presentation
Keywords:	tagging, asist, del.icio.us, informetrics, tag frequency, coword analysis
Subjects:	I. Information treatment for information services > ID. Knowledge representation. I. Information treatment for information services > IE. Data and metadata structures.
Depositing user:	Margaret E. I. Kipp
Date deposited:	17 Sep 2007
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:09
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/10396

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