This paper was presented at theWorld Library and Information Congress at the 2007 IFLA Conference.
It opens with the key question -- "What is the role of controlled vocabulary in a Web 2.0 world? Can we have the best of both worlds: balancing folksonomies and controlled vocabularies to help communities of users find and share information and resources most relevant to them?"
Paper includes a review of the growth and characteristics of user tagging and folksonomies on the Web. Throughout there is a discussion of the value that user tagging provides - along with some of the difficulties.
The aim is to examine if the folksonomy and formal taxonomy can be used together. The answer is Yes - and the authors have a proof of concept model that they are using at education.au.
"Is it possible to combine the two approaches and gain benefits from both? Some attempts have been made already and a few are mentioned here in a consideration of some future developments for social tagging. We then discuss our own model: the taxonomy-directed folksonomy for the myedna proof of concept."
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Funny, we were having a conversation along these lines just a few hours ago at the ACM Digital Library Workshop. Thanks for the timely pointer!
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