Hello, world! Joe Lamantia here, as the most recent addition to the Tag Team, with greetings and salutations for one and all. Readers of and contributors to this blog may know some of my writing on tagging and tag clouds, which is what brings me to this semi-structured thought collective.
I’ve been [...]
Hmm, I meant to blog this over a month ago. Jason Toal posted some results of a tagging study I participated in. Apparently SurveyMonkey is a security risk, so he can’t include his results in his academic work. Still, the results provide an interesting snapshot of one small group of people’s use of tags.
In the [...]
You’re It contributor Gene Smith posted a fascinating study of physical tagging habits from this year’s IA Summit (A micro-study of tagging) on his Atomiq blog.
Not surprisingly, a few of the contributors to this blog (Don, Peter, myself) are found to have conceivably “overthought” things a bit, presenting variations on the tag cloud concept [...]
The Tagging 2.0 panel I organized at South by SouthWest 2006 in March is now a Tagging 2.0 podcast among the many SXSW 2006 podcasts you can download.The Tagging 2.0 panel was one of the “highly-rated panels” this year, tied for first place with a number of other entertaining and informative panels too so check [...]
Stacy Surla, an information architect at MITRE Corp., posted the IA Institude mailing list last week about a social bookmarking system they’ve implemented on their intranet.
She also plugs an upcoming (next week!) Collaborative Web Tagging Workshop in Edinburgh.
In a followup to that same post, Cody Burleson from IBM mentioned that in addition to the [...]
Siderean, one of the interesting faceted classification companies, has announced some new capabilities that aim at automating the generation of metadata and that integrate tagging with facets.
The automation comes from entity extraction tools (plus the ability to integrate third party tools, because, frankly, Siderean is not in the entity extraction business) that isolate names of [...]
Nearly ten months ago, at the suggestion of Andy Baio I interviewed Gordon Luk (via IM) about FreeTag, an “Open Source Tagging / Folksonomy module for PHP/MySQL applications” he originally created for Upcoming and announced almost a year ago in his blog.
In the meantime I’ve continually intended to edit the chat transcript into a coherent [...]
I am Thomas Vander Wal and I am pleased to be invited to have a place to post and chat about the subject of tagging. I have spent much time pondering, playing with, researching, and developing tools with light metadata and tagging since at least the early 90s. I had seen tagging as [...]
I posted my notes on the Beyond Folksonomies at SXSW at my “The Power of Many” blog.
Update: Scot Hacker took notes on this panel too.
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This year’s Information Architecture Summit is chock full of sessions on tagging. Here are some highlights for those of you that haven’t yet spent your spring conference budget:
Tagging and Beyond: Personal, Social and Collaborative Information Architecture
I’m moderating this panel on social information architecture, looking at everything from tagging to collaborative filtering as ways groups [...]