Folksonomy & Taxonomy

Date: September 26 2007

Location: Virtual

Website: http://www.earley.com/_September_2007.asp

About This Event

What if we let users drive the taxonomy?

There is a lot of dialogue and research being conducted on folksonomies - also known as social tagging. Is it effective? How can we use folksonomy in the corporate environment?

Emma Tonkin from the University of Bath will talk about how research projects in recent years have centered around the analysis and description of user tagging practice and the resulting data sets. She will provide a brief description of their approach towards data collection and analysis of large tag sets, and highlight a few potential uses for a successful model of user tag sets.

Laurie Damianos will describe an ongoing technology investigation at MITRE to assess the value and utility of social bookmarking on a corporate intranet. They hypothesize that social bookmarking would be useful in this environment for resource management, information sharing and discovery, expert finding, and social networking. She will discuss features of the prototype system deployed and early analysis of findings on adoption, usage, and social influences. She will conclude with our challenges and plans for future development and integration into the enterprise

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Tags

folksonomies, folksonomy, social bookmarking, social tagging, taxonomy, user tags, web 20