InfoCamp Seattle 2012

You Say Tomato, I Say Aardvark:Taxonomy/ Folksonomy Smackdown

By Tracy Wolfe

Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy

Controlled vs. uncontrolledGenerated by a professional or by the

userSubjectivity of words Interesting related projects

Exercise 1

Look at these six images and write down the first five descriptive words that pop into your head for each of them.

We’ll take ten minutes to apply tags.

Image 1

Image 2

Image 3

Image 4

Image 5

Image 6

Let’s Compare

We’ll take a few minutes to identify commonalities and discrepancies in tags applied to the 6 images…

Controlled Vocabulary

Combining Taxonomy & Tagging

Andromeda Yelton “I think librarians often assume that, because they are based in rules, controlled vocabulary offers guarantees about metadata completeness or correctness, and tagging cannot."

Steve Museum

http://www.steve.museum/

The Steve Museum Project researches social tagging and museum collections; develops open source software tools for tagging collections and managing tags; and engages in discussion and outreach with members of the community who are interested in implementing social tagging for their own collections.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/socialTagging.htmlUsers can add their own tags to the online collection.

Each item has a base record of necessary information like the title, artist, date, collection, etc. However, by allowing users to add tags, the museum can find out how people really search for these items, encourage interaction with the collection, and make the whole experience a little social.

Digitalkoot

http://www.digitalkoot.fi/en/splashIn conjunction with Microtask, a company

dedicated to distributed work via the internet, the National Library of Finland dreamed up two games - Mole Bridge and Mole Hunt - both focused on correcting errors in OCR.

Libraries and User Tags

http://www.bibliocommons.com/www.spl.org

http://www.serialssolutions.com/aquabrowser/http://denverlibrary.org/

“Professional” Crowdsourcing

Amazon Mechanical Turkhttps://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcomeclickworker

http://www.clickworker.com/en/2011/08/25/english-george-eastman-house-taps-clickworker-for-iconic-global-crowdsourcing-project/

microtaskhttp://www.microtask.com/

Harvesting the Power of the Crowd

Brainstorm hybrid uses and solutions

Discuss automated metadata

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