Following each article citation below is a compilation of every tag you and your classmates created from assignment two. If available, tags from the folksonomy-based website, CiteULike (http://www.citeulike.org/) are listed as well. (Note: if a given tag is listed more than once it is because two or more people created the same tag.)
Now that you’ve seen the tags that your classmates (and the CiteULike community) have used for our course readings, write a minimum four page, double-spaced paper (no title page or APA formatting required) that addresses the following:
For the journal articles you tagged, how did your choice of tags compare to those of other students in the class and on CiteULike? Provide examples.
Based on your observation of the tags below, what (if anything) do you perceive are the strengths and weaknesses of folksonomies? Why? Provide examples.
Here are the article citations:
Foskett, D. J. (2003). Facet Analysis. In Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (2nd ed., pp. 1063-1067). New York: Taylor & Francis Group.
Note: No tags were assigned to this article in CiteULike.
Tags assigned by all of you in our LIBR-287 class:
Gross, T., & Taylor, A. G. (2005). What have we got to lose? The effect of controlled vocabulary on keyword searching results. College & Research Libraries, 66, 212-230.
Tags assigned by users on CiteULike:
Hartley, J., & Kostoff, R. N. (2003). How useful are "key words" in scientific journals? Journal of Information Science, 29(5), 433-438.
Rivadeneira, A. W., Gruen, D. M., Muller, M. J., & Millen, D. R. (2007). Getting our head in the clouds: Toward evaluation studies of tagclouds. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, 995-998.
Svenonius, E. (2003). Design of Controlled Vocabularies. In Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (2nd ed., pp. 822-838). New York: Taylor & Francis Group.
Feinberg, M. (2006). An examination of authority in social classification systems. In J. Furner & J. T. Tennis (Eds.), Advances in classification research: Vol. 17. Proceedings of the 17th ASIS&T SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop (pp. 1-11). Medford, NJ: Information Today.
Tennis, J. T. (2006). Social tagging and the next steps for indexing. In J. Furner, & J. T. Tennis (Eds.), Advances in classification research: Vol. 17. Proceedings of the 17th ASIS&T SIG/CR classification research workshop (pp. 1-19). Medford, NJ: Information Today.