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tag things with as many keywords as possible
tag things so they are easier for others to find
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- choose any or all of the recommended tags for your bookmarks.
- you could simply use quotation marks for "lesson plan"
- there are no better tags than others.
- we should agree on a special tag for the group like "LWC" that we would always add to every bookmark we tagged.
- Organizing tags in topics or bundles
- CamelCase is my favorite for MultiWordTags
- plural forms for countable nouns.
- Take, for instance, collaborat, a tag I tend to favor in de.licio.us to capture the essence of collaborate, collaboration, collaborative, and collaborators
- awareness-raising,
- are means of raising awareness
- wondering if there're any shortcut suggestions to 'attacking' the project of revisiting and tagging them?
- I've been tagging many things both ESOL and ESL (because I don't know if diigo would automatically search for both. Is there a way to find out ?
- we're moving from just collecting resources to a more engaged collective way of making the best out of the resources we share with the group.
- the power of folksonomies is exactly having everybody tagging as much as possible, with as much key-words as you can think of. We won't ever be able to create a true "system"
- agging for personal use x tagging for public good
- Tagging will always be ambiguous because our very personal ways of classifying things and making them useful for us. Even so, with folksonomies, we're able to see the latest trends in a determined group or about a certain topic, we can go to places never imagined before.
- e-learning
- http://k12learning20.wikispaces.com/.
- e-teaching, e-learning, networking, workshop, web
- "prof. development"
- difference between tags and categories
- web2.0, wiki, professional_development, technology, edtech
- e-learning
  e-learning
  e-teaching
  edtech
  networking
  prof. development
  professional_development
  technology
  web2.0
  web2.0
  wiki
  workshop
- ProDev
- web2.0, wikis, education, learning, teaching, ProDev, k-12
- networking
- I tend to use underscores and plurals, as well as one word tags, like professionaldevelopment, though I agree with Paul that ProfDev would make sense
- I need to be more consistent.

27 Jun 08

Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata

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user-‍created
metadata, where users of the documents and media create metadata
for their own individual use that is also shared throughout a
community.
These folksonomies are
simply the set of terms that a group of users tagged content
with, they are not a predetermined set of classification terms
or labels.
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- the dual nature of these systems: the compulsion to
  share - what is the Internet if not a venue for
  sharing cute photographs? - and conversely the importance of
  individuality and ego for these systems to work.
- Ambiguity of the tags can emerge as users apply
  the same tag in different ways. At the opposite end of the
  spectrum, the lack of synonym control can lead to different
  tags being used for the same concept, precluding
  collocation.
- serendipity
- browsing the system
  and its interlinked related tag sets is wonderful for
  finding things unexpectedly in a general area
- Perhaps the most important strength
  of a folksonomy is that it directly reflects the vocabulary
  of users
- it directly reflects their choices in diction,
  terminology, and precision.
- folksonomy, with its uncontrolled nature and
  organic growth, has the capability to adapt very quickly to
  user vocabulary changes and needs. There is no significant
  cost for a user or for the system to add new terms to the
  folksonomy.
- way or
  organizing information, and that a large group of people are
  using these systems,
- I think the lack of hierarchy, synonym
  control and semantic precision are precisely why it
  works.
- Feedback is immediate.
- But the real power emerges when
  you expand the scope to include all items, from all users,
  that match your tag
- This tight feedback loop leads to a form of asymmetrical
  communication between users through metadata. The users of a
  system are negotiating the meaning of the terms in the
  folksonomy, whether purposefully or not, through their
  individual choices of tags to describe documents for
  themselves.
  
  There are two models to describe what is happening here:
  one that focuses on individual incentives, and one that
  focuses on community aspects.
- Individuals have an incentive
  to tag their materials with terms that will help them organize
  their collections in a way that they can find these items
  later. The organizational scheme that emerges for each
  individual reflects their individual information needs.
- the behavior of the users can also be thought
  of as being influenced and related to their relationship to
  the other individuals using the service, and specific groups
  of users who they share tag use with
- community formation through metadata
- A folksonomy lowers the barriers to cooperation. Groups of
  users do not have to agree on a hierarchy of tags or detailed
  taxonomy, they only need to agree, in a general sense, on the
  “meaning” of a tag enough to label similar material with terms
  for there to be cooperation and shared value. Although this
  may require a change in vocabulary for some users, it is never
  forced, and as Udell discussed, the tight feedback loop
  provides incentives for this cooperation.
- community and individual motivations, are
  not mutually exclusive
- A user on Flickr, Andrew Lowosky, began posting pictures of
  doorbells in Florence, along with a brief piece of fiction
  about the doorbell in the description of the photograph. He
  dubbed this combination of photograph and short story
  “flicktion,” and tagged it as such. (Lowosky,
  2004.) Some other users have been tagging photographs with
  “flicktion” and writing short fiction to accompany it
- the most used tags are more likely to
  be used by other users since they are more likely to be seen
- A folksonomy represents simultaneously
  some of the best and worst in the organization of
  information. Its uncontrolled nature is fundamentally chaotic,
  suffers from problems of imprecision and ambiguity that well
  developed controlled vocabularies and name authorities
  effectively ameliorate. Conversely, systems employing free-‍form
  tagging that are encouraging users to organize information in
  their own ways are supremely responsive to user needs and
  vocabularies, and involve the users of information actively in
  the organizational system. Overall, transforming the creation
  of explicit metadata for resources from an isolated,
  professional activity into a shared, communicative activity by
  users is an important development that should be explored and
  considered for future systems development.

26 Jun 08

Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags?

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