Patterns in Tagging: An Analysis of CollaborativeClassification Practices in Social Bookmarking Tools
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Authors Kipp, Margaret E. I.
Citation Patterns in Tagging: An Analysis of Collaborative ClassificationPractices in Social Bookmarking Tools 2006-05,
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Margaret E.I. KippFaculty of Informat ion and Media StudiesUniversity of Western [email protected] tp://publish.uwo.ca/~ mkipp/
Patterns in Tagging:
An Analysis of Collaborative Classification Practices in Social
Bookmarking Tools
Connections 2006, Syracuse, NY, May 20-21
Socia l Bookm arking Tools
● share links, etc.● users encouraged to add keywords● Exam ples:● del.icio.us - websites, etc.
− http://del.icio.us/● citeulike - journals, etc
− http://www.citeulike.org/● connotea - journals, etc
− http://www.connotea.org/
del. icio.us
Tw o St udies
● 1. com parison of library descriptors, author keywords and user tags
− citeulike− LIS journals - 165 art icles, 1-13 users per art icle− com pare descriptors, keywords, tags per art icle
● 2. analysis of tag usage, sem ant ic st ructures form ed by tags
− del.icio.us− popular links - 64 URLs, 58728 posts− tags, frequency of tag use, coword analysis
Genera l Result s (bot h st udies)
● Spelling variat ions− UK vs US English spelling− punctuat ion (toread vs to-read)
● Sesquipedalians− informat ionseekingbehaviour
● Acronyms and abbreviat ions− ir for informat ion retrieval− gis for geographic informat ion systems
● Language− Most ly English, some other languages
Aut hor, User, Int erm ediary Tags
● comparison done using standard thesaurus terms (synonym, NT, BT, RT, etc.)
● most common relat ionship between three groups of terms was "related but not in the thesaurus" in 103 art icles
● next m ost common: RT in 79 art icles● unrelated terms occurred in 157 art icles
AUI (cont .)
● Sam ple Data: Paper on inform at ion literacyUser: bibliographic, il, inform at ion, inst ruct ion, literacy, no-tagAuthor: inform at ion, com puters, literacy, learning, percept ionInterm ediary: com puter literacy, cont inuing professional developm ent , inform at ion m anagem ent
● users do use term s related to thesaurus term s, but not st rict ly Related Term s
● term inology differences can be significant
Tags t hat are like Keyw ords
● Subject− informat ion_seeking_behaviour− copyright− informat ion_literacy− libraries
● Type− conference, art icle
● Geographic/spat ial− country names
Tags t hat aren't like Keyw ords
● t im e and task m anagem ent tags− toread, 2read, to-read, alire (French for toread)− lis510 (course code)− print , toprint− m aybe
● affect ive tags− fun− cool
● other tags− new− no-tag, system :unfiled
Tag Convergence ( frequency)
food
healt
h
recip
es
cook
ing
refe
renc
edie
tlife
lifeha
cks
howto
recip
etip
s
lifeha
ck
nutri
tion
fitnes
sFoo
d
healt
hy
tore
ad blog
cool
Cookin
g
Health lis
tdiy
Recipe
slis
ts0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
Over 100 Quick and Easy Foods
Co-t ag Graphs (M DS)
Tag convergence 2
prog
ram
ming
mat
h
deve
lopm
ent
learn
ing
mat
hem
atics
code
langu
age
tore
ad
educ
ation
Progr
amm
ing
@ch
eck
*read
Nowar
ticleblo
gde
v
inter
estin
g
lambd
a
langu
ages
learn
ing:p
rogr
amm
ing
mat
hmat
ics
pers
onal
prod
uctiv
ity
prog
amm
er
thes
is
think
ingtips
type:
artic
le0
2.5
5
7.5
10
12.5
15
17.5
20
Programming like a mathematician
Co-t ag Graphs 2
Co-t ag Graphs 3
Conclusions
● tagging has all the problems of free text search/indexing
● tagging demonstrates need for examinat ion of how users associate groups of documents (e.g. t ime and task management)
● tag groups tend to converge on a useful set of terms
● interest ing structures formed by tag groups, worthy of further study
Acknow ledgm ent s
● Social Sciences and Hum anit ies Research Council
● Faculty of Inform at ion and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario
Margaret E.I. KippFaculty of Informat ion and Media StudiesUniversity of Western [email protected] tp://publish.uwo.ca/~ mkipp/
Patterns in Tagging:
An Analysis of Collaborative Classification Practices in Social
Bookmarking Tools
Connections 2006, Syracuse, NY, May 20-21
