where Peter thinks aloud about technology, music, science, tango, social software, deep house, women and some interesting combinations of the aforementioned
Part of the allure of classifying things by assigning tags to them is that the user can give free reign to sloppiness. There is no authority —human or computational— passing judgment on the appropriateness or validity of tags, because tags have to mak
ExpertInnenworkshop: „Social Tagging in der Wissensorganisation – Perspektiven und Potenziale“ am 21./22. Februar 2008 am Institut für Wissensmedien in Tübingen
Authors focus on Flickr and Last.fm, two social media systems in which we can relate the tagging activity of the users with an explicit representation of their social network
A folksonomy is a user generated taxonomy used to categorize and retrieve Web pages, photographs, Web links and other web content using open ended labels called tags. Typically, folksonomies are Internet-based, but their use may occur in other contexts as