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Tagging with Folksonomies in a Taxonomy World Stephanie Lemieux Earley & Associates March 10, 2010 UIE Virtual Seminar
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Preview for the March 10 UIE Virtual Seminar: Tagging with Folksonomy in a Taxonomy Wold
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Tagging with Folksonomies in a Taxonomy World!
Stephanie Lemieux!Earley & Associates!
March 10, 2010!UIE Virtual Seminar!
And cheap!
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Why is tagging so interesting?!
User control over findability
It’s easy
Emergent structure (folksonomy)
Flexible and personal language
It’s social
The downside?
Neither tags nor taggers are perfect…
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Misspellings Taxnonomy Plam pilot
Compound words TimBernersLee
Case & number Folksonomy, Folksonomies
Personal tags To read My dog @work
Single-use tags Billybobsdog
Designing for tag 4
surfing gers
Tagging behind the firewall 5
Message text
External News Reports
Discussion postings
Links
Engineering document repositories
Success Stories
Policies
Approved Methods
Best Practices
Lower Cost Higher Cost Tagging/Organizing Processes
Unfiltered Reviewed/Vetted/Approved
Lower Value (More difficult to access)
Higher Value (Easier to access)
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Taxonomy! Folksonomy!
Findability Goodness!
Social
User Terms
Low Cost
Oversight
Consistency
Flexibility
Structure
4 styles of hybrids 7
Co-existence
Tag-influenced taxonomy
Tag hierarchies
Taxonomy-influenced tags
UIE Virtual Seminar March 10, 2010
Stephanie Lemieux Taxonomy Practice Lead Earley & Associates [email protected] www.earley.com
Tagging with Folksonomies in a Taxonomy World!
