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These are bookmarks I have saved during the course of the class EDES 501.
Updated on 2008-11-26
Created on 2008-10-01
Category: Schools & Education
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Weblogg-ed » What Will Happen To Books–NY Times
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Should we be thinking about how to prepare our kids for a linked, tagged
world?What strategies do we need to develop to read and write in linked, tagged
world?How do we best harness the potential of a world where knowledge is easily
connected and, therefore, increasingly overwhelming and, as my
wife pointed out, perhaps paralyzing?
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Scan This Book! - New York Times
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Because tags are user-generated, when they move to the realm of books, they will
be assigned faster, range wider and serve better than out-of-date schemes like
the Dewey Decimal System, particularly in frontier or fringe areas like
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The link and the tag may be two of the most important inventions of the last 50
years.
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You know you're a 21st century librarian if . . .
Joyce Valenza's wiki about being a librarian in the 21st century.
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Folksonomy :: vanderwal.net
Thomas Vander Wal's own description of how he coined the term "folksonomy" for user-defined labels or better known as tagging. He provides the definition at the time the term was coined as well.
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Some of you might have noticed services like Furl,
Flickr and Del.icio.us
using user-defined labels or tags to organize and share information.... Is there
a name for this kind of informal social classification?". -
Folksonomy is the result of personal free tagging of information and objects
(anything with a URL) for one's own retrieval. The tagging is done in a social
environment (usually shared and open to others). Folksonomy is created from the
act of tagging by the person consuming the information.The value in this external tagging is derived from people using their own
vocabulary and adding explicit meaning, which may come from inferred
understanding of the information/object. People are not so much categorizing, as
providing a means to connect items (placing hooks) to provide their meaning in
their own understanding.
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Folksonomy: social classification (Atomiq)
This is the original blog post that brought the term "folksonomy" to the world wide web audience. It provides a short list of the benefits and drawbacks of folksonomy at the time of the post (2004).
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- None of the current implementations have synonym control (e.g. "selfportrait" and "me" are distinct Flickr tags, as
are "mac" and "macintosh" on Del.icio.us). - Also, there's a certain lack of precision involved in using simple one-word
tags--like which Lance are we
talking about? (Though this is great for discovery, e.g. hot or Edmonton) - And, of course, there's no heirarchy and the content types (bookmarks,
photos) are fairly simple.
think folksonomies can work well for certain kinds of information because
they offer a small reward for using one of the popular categories (such as your
photo appearing on a popular page). People who enjoy the social aspects of the
system will gravitate to popular categories while still having the freedom to
keep their own lists of tags.On the other hand, I can see a few reasons why a folksonomy would be less
than ideal in a lot of cases:Still, the idea of socially constructed classification schemes (with no input
from an information architect) is interesting. Maybe one of these services will
manage to build a social thesaurus. - None of the current implementations have synonym control (e.g. "selfportrait" and "me" are distinct Flickr tags, as
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WebTools4u2use » About This Wiki
A site I came across while doing other research. Must get back to it to "browse".
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