#10 - Social Bookmarking, Tagging & Folksonomies
Learning Objectives
- Review the Learn More: Tags & Tag Clouds tutorial.
- Learn about the process known as “tagging” – why is everybody trying to catalog the Web?
- Explore del.icio.us and learn about collaborative tagging or descriptive indexing of the Web.
- Review the Learn More: del.icio.us tutorial.
- Take a look at the CommonCraft video, "Social Bookmarking in Plain English."
- Using del.icio.us (tutorial on YouTube)
Skills Practice
- Create your own portable bookmark page using del.icio.us , Diigo or another online bookmarking service; create an RSS feed for a topic that interests you and subscribe to the feed.
- Explore Technorati and see how blog tags/labels relate to this search engine of the blogosphere.
- Play with the library database – Fiction Connection – and see how tags/subject heading relate to each other in a graphical display.
Experience Sharing
- Share your experience on your 2.0 Learningblog.
- How could a service like del.icio.us be used in the library – comment about this on the hcplc=Lib2.0 blog
- Discuss how this trend to collaborative description could effect libraries on the hcplc=Lib2.0 blog (visit the library catalog of the Ann Arbor District Library for some ideas).
Resources
- Pew Internet & American Life Project. “Tagging.”
- Jason Morrison, "Why Are They Tagging, and Why Do We Want Them To?"
- Joan Beaudoin, "Flickr Image Tagging: Patterns Made Visible."
- Thomas Pack, "A 'del.icio.us' Way to Use Bookmarks."
- "A Librarian's Guide to Creating 2.0 Subject Guides." at iLibrarian.
- "Folksonomy" on Wikipedia
- "Learning 2.0: Tagging & Del.ico.us" by Helene Blowers
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