Michael Habib-
OpenID and Education.
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From 04/06 - “Tagging systems don’t work because a ton of people use them; they work because tags are valuable to us. “
Archive for the 'Folksonomies/Tagging' Category
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This student needs help conducting research on his Master’s Thesis on “Collaborative Indexing Systems”, i.e. tagging. Please take his 15 minute tagging “survey” if you get a chance. “Tobias Kowatsch, Student of Computer Science in Media at Hochschule Fu
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BIGWIG got in trouble with LITA for not using enough LITA branding. However, I am joining LITA because of BIGWIG.
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Karen Coombs’ response to Jason’s post and the LITA Letter. “But the truth is that the only way the system changes is if people participate and try to change it.”
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A deeper discussion of ALA committees resulting.
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A peak at Del.icio.us usability testing. Posted on Flickr of course.
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Facebook Sees Flood of New Traffic from Teenagers and Adults
The coMscore press release on Facebook’s massive growth in use among non-college age users.
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Faceted Folksonomy | davidsturtz.com
via johnfudrow — Post on Faceted Folksonomy. This is one of my favorite topics as of late. Expect to hear a lot about this in the near future. Basically it is a concept for collecting richer user contributed metadata.
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InfoSpaces » Blog Archive » The Evolution of Social Tagging
More on faceted tagging.
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From the ASIST Bulletin, this article appears to describe the need for faceted tagging and how FaceTag is attacking the problem.
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FaceTag: Integrating bottom-up and top-down classification in a social tagging system
“FaceTag is a working prototype of a semantic collaborative tagging tool conceived for bookmarking information architecture resources. It aims to show how the flat keywords space of user-generated tags can be effectively mixed with a richer faceted classi
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via John Furdrow — Seems more general than the same author’s works on faceted tagging, but seems like it would be a helpful into to his line of thinking.
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citation-formats - Microformats
“This page will display several different types of citation format types.” In depth comparison of Dublin Core, MODS, bibTeX and Z39.80
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tiara.org » Online Identity Bibliography
“A collection of academic papers and books about identity online and online identity.”
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tiara.org » status in social media
“I finally got a glimmer of a dissertation idea today: status in social media.” - Includes a nice discussion of status in Web 2.0 geek culture.
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The Real Paul Jones » Blog Archive » OCLC NextSpace virtual roundtable - Q1
Paul is blogging his answers to the questions being given to panel participants. The topic of the virtual roundtable is online communities. Other panel members include Fred Stutzman, Lori Bell, and Ed Castronova.
