Thursday, November 29, 2007

#13. Tagging, folksonomies etc.

Have had a look around del.icio.us. Aileen says the main interest here is the grouping and tagging of your "favourites" but I didn't seem to come across a lot on that topic, rather more on the tagging etc.

The concept of public tagging (metadata?) is interesting to a cataloguer but I feel lack of any structure can have drawbacks in lack of consistency in headings used. Good for browsing etc. but for serious searching I think there also needs to be some sort of authority structure.
Maybe public library catalogues could eventually allow for the users to add their own tags to the catalogue record?

No comments: