social_tagging

Social tagging
This page http://tagunity.wikispaces.com/social_tagging

(see also social_bookmarking)

"Tags have recently become popular as a means of annotating and organizing Web pages and blog entries," (Brooks & Montanez, 2006, abstract).

social tagging is also known as ... [insert list from many sources]

For more on social tagging within Wikispaces, you might like to browse http://taxocop.wikispaces.com/Social+tagging http://taxocop.wikispaces.com/Social+tagging2

Consistent with my discussion of 'overlapping conversations' [forthcoming], the TaxoCoP group the wikispaces.com link to [] convesation of social tagging points to the influence of Peter Morville and David Weinberger.

Bruce Melendely speculates that to classify the content in a site like flickr you would need, someting like 80 per cent of the dewey decimal systems' classification schema. He adds that: > Generally the value of open tagging is in allowing the flexibility needed to classify a completely wide-open domain without presenting users with an onerous, massive classification interface.

Patrick Lambe pointed to Peter Morville's book Ambient Findability (2006) and brought 'tag clouds' into the conversation, and suggested that centraly managed taxonomies and free adn more flexible folksonomies need not be seen as either-or options. [for more on this see hybrid_approaches].