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#Socialtagging: Defining its role in the academic library
- 1. #socialtagging: Defining its role in the academic library Department of Library and Information Studies
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- The internet. It has become inextricably intertwined into the fabric of our society and it is here to stay whether we like its presence or not. The internet has changed the way our society functions in nearly every way. With that, the needs and expectations of users has also changed. Development of Web 2.0 technologies has improved upon what is available through the internet. Web 2.0 applies to a set of characteristics found in web-based tools and practices that encourage more user interaction and participation. The information seeker and user of today expects to be able to do everything online and expects to be able to contribute. Web 2.0 tools allow users to create personal spaces that are highly intertwined with their personal interests and research. This dramatic change of today’s information seeker and user has created the need for a change in the way information is stored and accessed.
- Conceptual analysis: the “aboutness” of the document and deciding what is relevant about it Translation: finding and assigning symbols (tags) to the document that represent the “aboutness” so it can be easily accessed in the future The great thing about tagging is that the “aboutness” can be different for everyone so the tags can represent that thus creating a more intitutive and individualized indexing experience, while giving the document multiple unique access points.
- While some of these sites like twitter and flickr cater mainly to social networking, others cover the academic spectrum as well. Delicious is used by many schools to help supplement the reference sources already available to students. Because we live in a web centered world tagging and bookmarking good reference sites makes perfect sense, since that is where look first. Library thing has also created specific software “Library Thing for Libraries” which not only incorporates tagging but also includes social reference managing and collaborative cataloging.
- -Unlike print indexes there is a virtually unlimited amount of digital space in which to hold the tags no limit on tags -Users can use language that makes sense to them which in turn allows them to engage more with the document because they have some small control on its meaning and organization Anyone can add or remove tags -Tags are flexible and can serve many purposes. Tags can be descriptive, used for ownership or source, opinion, self-reference, task organizing, play, or determine resource type Helps to create a community of knowledge sharing user become actively involved with the information and its retrieval and organization tags can be for personal use (low structure) or more disciplined
- Lack of authority control can cause confusion when trying to standardize a number of tags for a community of people to utilize Some users are able to apply hundreds of tags to certain documents so that they are weighted more therefore they show up first in a query despite their content. Spagging = spam tagging because there is no authority control it is easy to forget or lose track of the tags that you applied to a document making it hard to retrieve. By sharing and organizing their tags with other users, tags don’t get lost because they become more popular making them easier to retrieve in the future. Incorrect or inappropriately tagged documents misleading and erroneous some people question whether tagging is a fad or here to stay don’t want to invest time and energy into something that will be obsolete in a few years Digital divide people who are not technically literate or who do not have adequate access to a computer and the web will not be able to benefit from tagging
- PROS: CONS: -Terms and concepts are constantly changing and the sheer size of controlled vocabularies such as LCSH make it extremely difficult to react to changes. -No single access term, however well crafted and chosen, can cover all of a user’s query attempts -
- encourage collaboration, self-expression, and play
- Can make projects, show related tag subjects. Librarians have developed best practices while using this system. Formatted tags: firstword_secondword
- Social tagging allows users to perform tasks that were once just the job of experts Provides a new way to access information based on individual knowledge and cultural experience Tagging is current and immediately captures changes