Integrating folksonomies with Google

Date: October 17 2007

Location: Virtual

Website: http://www.montague.com/roundtable38.html

About This Event

11:00 am - 2:00 pm Eastern, 8:00 am - 11:00 am Pacific

Folksonomies are informal lists of keywords created by users of content-sharing Web sites, such as del.icio.us (for bookmarks) and Flickr (for photos).

The real power of folksonomies lies in sharing lists of categories among users and applying them in search and discovery applications. Ideally, they are integrated with traditional metadata structures, such as thesauri.

In this roundtable, Rich Hoeg of Honeywell will tell how his organization is using a product called ConnectBeam to allow engineers to tag articles they find via searches conducted using the Google Search Appliance.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This event is for practitioners only. Space is limited to permit everyone's active participation. If you have limited familiarity with RDF and the Semantic Web, you can take the pre-roundtable primer on October 16.

This session will be of interest to corporate taxonomists, knowledge managers, search system administrators, Web publishers, information architects, and business unit managers who want to improve their staff's productivity.

DISCUSSION TOPICS

• What is the business case for folksonomies and "social tagging?"

• What should be done to prepare the organization for social tagging? What cultural factors are conducive for successful adoption?

• What is "social searching" and how does it work?

• How do internal (behind the firewall) social tagging applications differ from public applications (e.g. del.icio.us and Flickr)?

• Can employees tag both internal and external content? How are both types of sources displayed in the search engine?

• Who should be allowed to create and apply tags? If not everyone, how do you choose which employees to authorize?

• What resources are necessary in terms of time, staff, and tools?

• How do you measure the benefits of social tagging?

FORMAT
The format is teleconference.

REGISTRATION
To register, call (413) 367-0245.

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http://www.montague.com/roundtable38.html

Tags

folksonomies, google, search