These are the topics in "The Value of Social Tagging in a Corporate Setting" (April 2006) by Stephanie Lemieux in the TaxoCop wiki. It includes a description of the use of social tagging at Raytheon where "people submit website suggestions (URLs) along with recommended tags/keyword which are subsequently verified and approved by librarians."
"Why does it work? Chiefly because the sites submitted are specific to a group or discipline, and no matter how hard we try, having a degree in library science does not give you a degree in engineering (insert discipline here). We do not speak their vernacular. We do well enough to add value with controlled terms, but these folk tags have a life of their own."
The 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems had two papers on social tagging available through the ACM Portal:
- Social tagging roles: publishers, evangelists, leaders
- What drives content tagging: the case of photos on Flickr
Abstract and references are available. Access requires subscription to ACM.
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