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- Title: Folksonomies in the Library: Their Impact on User Experience, And Their Implications for the Work of Librarians (Regular FEATURE: Scholarship-In-Practice) (Report)
- Author : The Australian Library Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 235 KB
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Folksonomies ('bottom-up', user-generated categorisations) are an integral part of 'Web 2.0' technologies, and have been employed in a wide variety of online contexts, including businesses (such as Amazon), social networking sites, photo and music sharing, blogs, and OPAC 'discovery layers'. These unstructured knowledge organisation systems will also have an important role in future Semantic Web ontologies. Despite many shortcomings, the use of tags and folksonomies has become standard practice in indexing the Social Web. This conceptual paper poses four questions: