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Miguel guhlinTags are very efficient ways of allocating attention in the face of informational overabundance. It takes very little time to bookmark and tag a resource. Because users are the first ones to benefit from classifying the resources that interest them, there
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Aviva GabrielPart of the allure of classifying things by assigning tags to them is that the user can give free reign to sloppiness. There is no authority —human or computational— passing judgment on the appropriateness or validity of tags, because tags have to make se
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johnfromberkeleyscroll down to "What makes a good tag?"
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mark vanfor distributed classification systems " I explore two aspects of this intersection. In the first part, ..., I look at how DCSs frame social activity in the process of aggregating individual tagging choices into collective information; in short, how the c
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Edith SpellerGreat ideas about how to standardise distributed classification systems without losing the richness of meaning they contain.
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Rick KrausePart of the allure of classifying things by assigning tags to them is that the user can give free reign to sloppiness. There is no authority —human or computational— passing judgment on the appropriateness or validity of tags, because tags have to mak
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. . . the code of SBSs removes [sic] the need for humans to negotiate meaning around
classification. This can be liberating as well as alienating. Liberating because, as I
suggested above, there is no governing body dictating what the classification scheme
should be. Alienating because, without the mechanisms for deliberation, meaning
becomes atomistic, a reflection of what the software has parsed and aggregated from
detached individuals, not what has emerged through consensus and deliberation.
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Part of the allure of classifying things by assigning tags to them is that the user can give free reign to sloppiness. There is no authority —human or computational— passing judgment on the appropriateness or validity of tags, because tags have to make sense first and foremost to the individual who assigns and uses them. And yet, the whole point of distributed classification systems (DCSs) such as del.icio.us and flickr is that the aggregation of inherently private goods (tags and what they describe) has public value:
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Darlene FichterWhat makes a good tag. "Think of tags as personal, but also think of tags as social."
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OITC-Richthe use of tags
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Part of the allure of classifying things by assigning tags to them is that the user can give free reign to sloppiness. There is no authority —human or computational— passing judgment on the appropriateness or validity of tags, because tags have to make sense first and foremost to the individual who assigns and uses them. And yet, the whole point of distributed classification systems (DCSs) such as del.icio.us and flickr is that the aggregation of inherently private goods (tags and what they describe) has public value: When people use the same tag to point to different resources they are organizing knowledge in a manner, commonly referred to as a folksonomy, that makes sense to them and to others like them. In other words, the tag is the object that brings a resource and a social group together via the shared meaning of a word (although tags also serve to form connections between words and new meanings, as for example when you encounter a link to the Center for Alternative Technology when looking at the tag 'cat').
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cshirky"Part of the allure of classifying things by assigning tags to them is that the user can give free reign to sloppiness."
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Part of the allure of classifying things by assigning tags to them is that the user can give free reign to sloppiness. There is no authority —human or computational— passing judgment on the appropriateness or validity of tags, because tags have to make sense first and foremost to the individual who assigns and uses them. And yet, the whole point of distributed classification systems (DCSs) such as del.icio.us and flickr is that the aggregation of inherently private goods (tags and what they describe) has public value: When people use the same tag to point to different resources they are organizing knowledge in a manner, commonly referred to as a folksonomy, that makes sense to them and to others like them.
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