Tagging full text searchable articles: An overview of social tagging activity in historic Australian Newspapers August 2008 – August 2009

Holley, Rose Tagging full text searchable articles: An overview of social tagging activity in historic Australian Newspapers August 2008 – August 2009. D-Lib Magazine, 2010, vol. 16, n. 1/2. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

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English abstract

In August 2008, tagging was implemented on articles that were full text searchable within the National Library of Australia’s historic Australian Newspapers service (http://newspapers.nla.gov.au).. During the first year, 500 users created over 100,000 tags, 38,000 of which were distinct. The tagging was very successful and the National Library will be extending the tagging functionality to all of its other collections before the end of 2009. In this article, the tagging activity, behaviors and outcomes are analyzed and compared with other research on image tagging.

Item type: Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords: tagging, tags, social engagement, social metadata, user engagement, folksonomies, historic newspapers, Australian newspapers, full-text resources, web 2.0, user generated content, social tagging.
Subjects: I. Information treatment for information services > IZ. None of these, but in this section.
I. Information treatment for information services > IC. Index languages, processes and schemes.
C. Users, literacy and reading. > CZ. None of these, but in this section.
Depositing user: Rose Holley
Date deposited: 25 Feb 2010
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:16
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/14206

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