Many enterprise search companies are incorporating elements of collaborative tagging into their systems. The book Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web is intended to help people understand the tagging and folksonomies and design for it in their systems.
Peter Morville wrote, "In Tagging, Gene Smith has written the definitive book on designing applications for the social web."
The author, Gene Smith is an information architect, blogger, designer, consultant and "tagging aficionado". He is principal at nForm User Experience in Edmonton, Alberta and has advised clients like Comcast, Ancestry.com and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute. [From bio at Northern Voice.]
Some notes and materials are at the companion web site - Tagging. This has a couple of interviews and some footnotes for the chapters. Potential readers would most like to see the table of contents, but this is not at either the web site or the Amazon page.
Mr Smith also maintains the blog Atomiq which is largely about information architecture and tagging.
For an introduction to the principles of tagging see Tagging 101, his presentation to Northern Voice available through Slideshare.
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