"Whether you realize it or not, you're already familiar with controlled vocabularies. The Library of Congress subject headings and Yahoo's search criteria are a couple of examples. So, as you've probably guessed by now, controlled vocabularies are predete
Discussion of flaws and potential solutions to using social bookmarking sites (from del.icio.us to digg) as folks monetize, abuse, trick, and tweak them: no uniform tagging conventions, flat tag structures (non-relational), overly-generalized tags (catego
I’m seeking ways to expand metadata hooks into new areas of my overall information management scheme...[excerpt from] tecosystems...because technology is just another ecosystem.
Ex: When viewing http://www.bibsonomy.org/user/schmitz/linux, you will be offered the possibility of seeing the tag linux as a concept. That way, you will also see those resources not tagged with linux themselves, but with a direct subtag thereof, for exa
Tag Descriptions allow you to describe your tags for yourself and others visiting your bookmarks...simply go to your tag page. From this page you should see a link called "create tag description". Clicking this link pops up the interface for creating a Ta