Creating an Image and Idea Index

In an attempt to meet the patrons' needs in our library, we embark on a user-generated six week tagging project. After a discussion on what it means to evaluate a tag cloud of a work, we settle on the need for a quantitative non-editorial evaluation. We propose the index h, defined as the number of tags that have been repeated a number higher or equal to h, as a metric to quantitatively evaluate tag clouds. The h indexes for a random sample are generated to see what range is normal for h. Lastly we propose using the h index as a way to constructively bring a folksonomy into an online catalog and encourage a conversation with the existing taxonomy.