Tuesday February 20, 2007
Tuesday February 20, 2007 Tagging at LibraryThing and Amazon
Tim Spaulding has written a very interesting summary of an experimental comparison he performed examining some parameters of tagging at LibraryThing and Amazon. It can - and should - be read by librarians at http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2007/02/when-tags-works-and-when-they-dont.php
Tagging has been endlessly promoted for 2.0 catalogs, but as Tim concludes in his report, getting anyone to tag stuff that isn't theirs seems to be a real problem (heck, we even have to pay people (catalogers) to do it :) ). And avoiding spurious political or opinion tagging would be quite a challenge in any academic environment. Technology is easy; human behavior much less so.
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