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Information Discovery – Long Tail View CREATING GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF LIBRARY USERS WITH OPEN-HYBRID TAXONOMY & FOLKSONOMY 72 OPEN - HYBRID TAXONOMY & FOLKSONOMY IN ACTION Record - 1 Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Felidae Genus: Panthera Species: tigris Title: Bride & Prejudice Subjects: • Man Woman relationships Drama • Musical Films • Feature Films ISBN: 0788858467 Pride & Prejudice Aishwarya Rai Bolly wood Sher Khan Rudyard Kipling Tiger Post your own Folksonomy Tags for this WikiPoster Record 1 & 2 here INTERACTIVE TAGGING EXAMPLE Record - 2 OVERVIEW While information seekers routinely query web search engines using natural language search terms with ease, the library catalogs and other knowledge organization systems are viewed as too complicated because of the controlled formal taxonomies used as search terms provided by classification systems such as LCSH, DDC, or MeSH. It is imperative to come to a common ground for easy information retrieval by using a hybrid of taxonomy and folksonomy or socially collaborative tagging. Semantic web technologies enable users to create tags to categorize information in their own context. Research shows this tagging approach augments controlled subject headings by providing richer metadata which enhances additional findability of resources for global communities. WHAT IS TAXONOMY? In simplest terms, accurate classification created by experts is called taxonomy. Also known as ‘controlled vocabulary’, it is used for structuring information for easier management and retrieval. It forms the basis of classification and indexing systems in information management. Taxonomies help users search organized resources such as catalogs and databases. Limitations of Taxonomy • Understood by few experts only • Subject terms as perceived by author • Controlled and Limiting • Unaccessed information = Lost customer WHAT IS FOLKSONOMY? It is an alternative grassroots approach to categorization bringing natural language to the search arena. Folksonomy begins with tagging. Labels called “tags” make searches more effective as the vocabulary used for tags is user-generated. Cumulative force of all the individual tags produces a bottom-up, self-organized system for classifying information. Limitations of Folksonomy • Folksonomic tagging contributes to the abundance of irrelevant or inaccurate information and is referred to as "Meta Noise". Expert Tags Gothenburg Subject Term Community of Users Göteborg Götheborg Guthaeborg Götheborgh Gottenburg Gothembourg Core Taxonomy Folksonomy: World of Collaborative Users
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IFLA 2010 Poster 72 presentation at Gothenburg, Sweden. Title: Creating Global Community of Library Users with Open-Hybrid Taxonomy and Folksonomy Presenter: Alka Bhatnagar, United States
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Information Discovery – Long Tail View
CREATING GLOBAL COMMUNITYOF LIBRARY USERS
WITH OPEN-HYBRID TAXONOMY & FOLKSONOMY72
OPEN - HYBRID TAXONOMY & FOLKSONOMY IN ACTION
Record - 1
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Panthera
Species: tigris
Title: Bride & Prejudice
Subjects:• Man Woman relationships Drama
• Musical Films
• Feature Films
ISBN: 0788858467
Pride &Prejudice
AishwaryaRai
Bollywood
SherKhan
RudyardKipling
Tiger
Post your ownFolksonomy Tags
for this WikiPoster Record 1 & 2 here
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Record - 2
OVERVIEW
While information seekers routinely
query web search engines using
natural language search terms with
ease, the library catalogs and other
knowledge organization systems are
viewed as too complicated because
of the controlled formal taxonomies
used as search terms provided by
classification systems such as LCSH,
DDC, or MeSH.
It is imperative to come to a common
ground for easy information retrieval
by using a hybrid of taxonomy and
folksonomy or socially collaborative
tagging.
Semantic web technologies enable users to create tags to categorize information in their own context.
Research shows this tagging
approach augments controlled
subject headings by providing richer
metadata which enhances additional
findability of resources for global
communities.
WHAT IS TAXONOMY?In simplest terms, accurate classification created by experts is called taxonomy. Also known as ‘controlled vocabulary’, it is used for structuring information for easier management and retrieval. It forms the basis of classification and indexing systems in information management.
Taxonomies help users search organized resources such as catalogs and databases.
Limitations of Taxonomy
• Understood by few experts only• Subject terms as perceived by author• Controlled and Limiting• Unaccessed information = Lost customer
WHAT IS FOLKSONOMY?
It is an alternative grassroots approach to categorization bringing natural language to the search arena.
Folksonomy begins with tagging. Labels called “tags” make searches more effective as the vocabulary used for tags is user-generated.
Cumulative force of all the individual tags produces a bottom-up, self-organized system for classifying information.
Limitations of Folksonomy
• Folksonomic tagging contributes to the abundance of irrelevant or inaccurate information and is referred to as "Meta Noise".
Expert
Tags
GothenburgGothenburgSubject
Term
Community of Users
GöteborgGötheborg
Guthaeborg
GötheborghGottenburg
Gothembourg
Core Taxonomy Folksonomy: World of Collaborative Users
WEBLIOGRAPHY• http://conferences.infotoday.com/documents/84/CT-T3_Bhatnagar.ppt
• http://www.columbia.edu/~rjb57/folksonomies.ppt• http://www.iskoi.org/doc/folksonomies.htm• http://www.webology.ir/2007/v4n2/a41.html
SOLUTION
OUTCOME
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IFLA2010
Taxonomy
Folksonomy
Poster72
Presenter:
Alka BhatnagarInformation Resource Officer
U. S. Department of StateWashington, D.C., USA
Email: [email protected]: [email protected]
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alkabbhatnagar
Empower the user. Offer a hybrid system of
taxonomy and folksonomy for ease of information
discovery.
In this process the controlled and precise
taxonomy created by an expert stays exactly
unchanged and the user generated folksonomy
supplements it with additional synonyms and
semantically related terms representing their
knowledge, expertise, social and cultural
background, interpretation, and/or their interests.
Broad folksonomic approach tends to show the long tail effect as seen above.
Enhanced user experience and ease of resource discovery for global community.
Content resonates with diverse audiences and populations.
Creates inclusiveness and globalization of user communities.
Global users contributing to content creates global communities of library users.
Community specific tags help more relevant searches.
Eggplant as search term
Brinjal as tag for unique user . Used in other countries.
Taxonomy And Folksonomy
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