Folksonomies in the Library: Their Impact on User Experience, And Their Implications for the Work of Librarians (Regular FEATURE: Scholarship-In-Practice) (Report) Folksonomies in the Library: Their Impact on User Experience, And Their Implications for the Work of Librarians (Regular FEATURE: Scholarship-In-Practice) (Report)

Folksonomies in the Library: Their Impact on User Experience, And Their Implications for the Work of Librarians (Regular FEATURE: Scholarship-In-Practice) (Report‪)‬

The Australian Library Journal 2011, August, 60, 3

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Folksonomies ('bottom-up', user-generated categorisations) are an integral part of 'Web 2.0' technologies, and have been employed in a wide variety of online contexts, including businesses (such as Amazon), social networking sites, photo and music sharing, blogs, and OPAC 'discovery layers'. These unstructured knowledge organisation systems will also have an important role in future Semantic Web ontologies. Despite many shortcomings, the use of tags and folksonomies has become standard practice in indexing the Social Web. This conceptual paper poses four questions:

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2011
1 August
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
18
Pages
PUBLISHER
Australian Library and Information Association
SIZE
236
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