Folksonomies: When the user is an information architect

Charles Seger, cand. Scient. Bibl.

Ph.d.-student @ Royal School of Library and Information ScienceResearch Program: Information interaction and Information Architecture

Agenda

• Background for my project• Problems / Methods • Example: Use of a folksonomy• Webometrics and Tagometrics• Questions to the audience • References

Background

• Vast Increase in use and production of online information– Need for new methods and tools for

organizing

• 28% of all online Americans have tagged content on the Internet (Rainie, 2007)

FOLK SONOMY

Aalborg

PresentationCourse

CharlesResearch? Folksonomy

methodology

FOLKSONOMY

Main purpose

• Explore and charter user indexing• Explore collaborative tagging as part

of users information behaviour

Learned?

Questions

• How can users IB behaviour be investigated just by registration of the results of their actions?

• How can this setup be combined with a more qualitative approach?

Referencesdel.icio.us

URL: http://del.icio.us/

Lego Digital Design®

http://ldd.lego.com/

Rainie, L. (2007) 28% of Online Americans Have Used the Internet to Tag Content. Pew Internet & American Life Project. Reports: Online activities & pursuits. Tagging. January 31.URL: http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Tagging.pdf

Folksonomies as a synergy

Tag

User

Information Object