Interoperability Focus: Events

ILI 2005: Folksonomies: Community Metadata?

Marieke Guy gave a presentation on Folksonomies: Community Metadata? at the Internet Librarian International 2005 Conference held at the Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, Monday 10^th - Tuesday 11^th October 2005 (with workshop sessions on Sunday 9^th October 2005).

The presentation was part of a panel session running from 16:00 - 17:15 on Monday 10^th October 2005, Session B105.

Facilitators:

Marieke Guy, Interoperability Focus, UKOLN (UK)
Brian Kelly, UKOLN (UK)
Michael Stephens, St. Joseph County Public Library (USA)

Abstract

A folksonomy is a decentralised, social approach to creating online metadata for digital assets. The result is a flat namespace with no hierarchy or control. This new practice, used on sites like del.icio.us and Flickr, has sparked much debate between those eager for a user-centered web and others in favour of more formal classification systems. This session explores the history of folksonomies and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of personalised classification (tagging). The session concludes with a panel discussion and examples of how folksonomies are being used in real-world applications.

Materials

Slides

Folksonomies: Community Metadata?

[MS PowerPoint 97/2000 format] - [HTML format]

Folksonomies: The Sceptics View

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/ili-2005/talk-3/ - given by Brian Kelly

Handout

Folksonomies: Community Metadata?

[MS Word 97/2000 format]

Other URLs

The following URLs may also be useful.

Bookmark Sites

• del.icio.us
  <http://del.icio.us/>
• Tagsy,
  <http://tagsy.com>
• Jots,
  <http://jots.com/>
• BlogMarks,
  <http://blogmarks.net/>
• Connotea,
  <http://www.connotea.org/>
• CiteULike,
  <http://www.citeulike.org/>

Images, Video and Sound

• Flickr,
  <http://www.flickr.com/>
• Vimeo,
  <http://www.vimeo.com/>
• Up to 11,
  <http://www.upto11.net/>
• Freesound,
  <http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/>
• GenieLab,
  <http://genielab.com/>
• Technorati,
  <http://www.technorati.com/>

Other

• Up coming,
  <http://upcoming.org/>
• Tagsurf,
  <http://tagsurf.com/>
• Poetry X,
  <http://poetryx.com/>
• 43 things,
  <http://www.43things.com/>
• Newsgator,
  <http://www.newsgator.com/>
• 24 eyes,
  <http://www.24eyes.com/>

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