TaggingFive Emerging Trends

Information Architecture SummitMiami, FL

April 12, 2008

Tagging, the book

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User Resource

Tags

Five Trends

• More Structure

• Automanual Folksonomies

• Leveraging Communities

• Rethinking Pace Layers

• Sparking Innovation

More Structure

Structure

Sticky

Not Sticky

User Resource

Tags

Resource

CD

Metadata from songs can be aggregated to describe albums and artists.

CD CD

Artist Artist

http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/09/how_to_build_on_bubbleup_folksonomies/

Leveraging Communities

“humor” vs “humour”

British SpellingDouglas AdamsTerry Pratchett

P.G. WodehouseBill Bryson

American SpellingJon Stewart

David SedarisThe Onion

Douglas Adams

Automanual Folksonomies

“I notice a hesitance toward hard-coded semantics and manual work--people think these things won’t scale. I learned to mix it up... a small amount semantics on top of minimal structure can work wonders.”

- Peter Van Dijck

Rethinking Pace Layers

http://www.visuallee.com/weblog/images/brand_keynote_400.jpg

Fast

Slow

Content, Services, Interface

Adaptive Finding Tools

Controlled Vocabulary

Enabling Technologies

Embedded Navigation Systems

Faceted Classification Schemes

http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000003.php

“For quite some time, I have believed this concept of pace layering holds great promise... In this discussion of metadata, the potential for a unifying architecture is self-evident. Semantic Web tools and standards create a powerful and enduring foundation. Taxonomies and ontologies provide a solid semantic network that connects interface to infrastructure. And the fast-moving, fashionable folksonomies sit on top: flexible, adaptable, and responsive to user feedback.”

- Peter Morville

“Ajax”

Stability

“Ajax”Stability

Fragment. Break text into tags.

Facet. Divide tags in facets.

Filter. Use tags to help filter resources.

Sparking Innovation

Any Text String

Write Read

geotagged

geo:lat=54.1423

geo:long=-113.1232

Marker Tag

Machine Tags}

upcoming:event=171852

namespace : key = value

clothing:size="large"blog:via="http://atomiq.org"dc:title="Tagging"geo:long=113.132

Flickr

Dan Catt

Innovation

Flickr Users

Developers

Job at Flickr

Useful Tools

New API Methods

Five Trends

• More Structure

• Automanual Folksonomies

• Leveraging Communities

• Rethinking Pace Layers

• Sparking Innovation

Gene Smith

Principal, nForm User Experience

Email: gene.smith@nform.ca

Blog: http://atomiq.org

Twitter: http://twitter.com/gsmith

Slides: http://slideshare.net/gsmith