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Folksonomies in Action

"When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.” - Lord Kelvin (1883)

by Laena McCarthy & David Conners (December 2006)
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Random Books: PMC Index

Popular Tags: PMC Index

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  • 1. Creating an Image and Idea Index (1)
  • 2. Introduction (1)
  • 3. Folksonomies and Tags (1)
  • 4. User Tagging (1)
  • 5. Evaluating Tag Clouds (1)
  • 6. h index Examples (1)
  • 7. Folksonomies in the OPAC (1)
  • 8. Conclusions (1)
  • 9. Acknowledgements (1)

References

  • An Index to Quantify an Individual's Scientific Research Output
  • Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy
  • Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags?
  • Folksonomy: A Game of High-tech (and High-stakes) Tag. Dye, Jessica. EContent. Vol. 29, iss. 3 (Apr 2006).
  • The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User Based Tagging

Further Readings

  • Burn the Catalog
  • Clay Shirky
  • How does the h index change over time? (Part 1)
  • How does the h index change over time (Part 2)
  • How does the h index change over time (Part 3)

Links

  • LibraryThing (PMC Index)
  • Delicious
  • Flickr

Tagging best practices (from Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags?)

  • use plurals rather than singulars
  • use lower case
  • group words using an underscore
  • follow tag conventions established by others
  • educate users
  • check spelling
  • avoid unlikely compound word groupings
  • add synonyms