Tag Archives: social-bookmarking

Video Presentation on Tagging and Folksonomies

November 7, 2007Blog, Presentationsfolksonomies, social software, social-bookmarking, tagging, user-task-analysis, video, web standardsJason Morrison

Here’s the video of a presentation I gave at the Cleveland Web Standards Association last month (at the time of this posting the website is a little bare, check out the Meetup page for more details).

In this video I talk about the same topic as myTagging and Folksonomy article in the ASIST Bulletin. What are the different kinds of uses for social tagging and folksonomies and what are users’ motivations for tagging?

Jason Morrison – Tagging Systems & Folksonomies from Cleveland Web Standards on Vimeo.

I’m pretty happy to have been the next presenter after Eric Meyer. In this month’s meeting Brad Colbow talked about CSS positioning.What do you think? Feel free to leave a comment below.

Tagging and Folksonomy artcle in the ASIST Bulletin

November 4, 2007Academic Papers, Blog, Web Design, Writingfolksonomies, information-architecture, social software, social-bookmarking, taggingJason Morrison

The issue has been our for a little while now, but I thought I would note that I have an article about The use of tagging systems in this month’s issue of the ASIST Bulletin. Take a look at Why Are They Tagging, and Why Do We Want
Them To?

Almost everyone has a tagging system the web is facing serious weather with tag clouds on every site. I think it’s interesting to explore the uses of folksonomies and why users bother tagging things in the first place. Here’s an excerpt:

When thinking about adding tagging to a site, the first question should be: What do we want to get out of this? Does the site need something to improve search results or a new navigational facet to better connect related pages? Is the goal to classify lots of multimedia objects with minimal cost or to get users to interact with the site a little more?

Tagging and Searching: Search Retrieval Effectiveness of Folkonsomies on the World Wide Web

October 31, 2007Academic Papers, Blog, WritingAcademic Papers, Blog, folksonomies, information-architecture, information-retrieval, search-engines, social-bookmarking, Taxonomies, Web2.0, WritingJason Morrison

To complete my MS in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management at Kent State I did some research on folksonomies and how the can support information retrieval. I compared social bookmarking systems with search engines and directories. I’m hoping to see the results published in an academic journal. In the mean time, you can see a pre-publication copy of my results:

Tagging and searching [pdf, 989K]