Folksonomies and Tagging

The following will provide tutorials, definitions and resources for Folksonomies and Tagging. You are not required to look at all of the material, but search it until you feel that you have a good understanding of what is required for you to fulfill the assignment.

What are they: Folksonomies and Tagging?

Be aware that sometimes there are lively discussions regarding definitions.

• Wikipedia Definition of Folksonomies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy)
• Wikipedia Definition of tags (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags)
• Wikipedia Definition of Social Bookmarking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking)

The following are lists of some 'link sharing' services:

• Zoom Clouds (http://zoomclouds.egrupos.net/)
• Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us)
• Flickr (http://flickr.com)
• Furl (http://furl.net/)
• Shadows (http://shadows.com/)

Links of Interest

• Zoom Clouds tutorial (http://zoomclouds.egrupos.net/about.html#q1)
• This is a list of social software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_software)
• Research paper published by HP labs entitled The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems (http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/tags/index.html)

Examples

• Lots of Zoom Clouds examples (http://zoomclouds.egrupos.net/about.html#q4)
• Tag Cloud (http://www.tagcloud.com/)is getting overhauled at the moment. The following is a picture of what they look like: Tag Clouds (http://yahoo.theherrens.com/)

Look at the Flickr download in the sidebars of the following blogs:

• Student Blake Berrett (http://murmurs12.blogspot.com/)
• Student Connie Halioris (http://holographic-universe.blogspot.com/)
• Student Paul Jones (http://www.flickr.com/photos/71197960@N00/)

Assignment

1. Add a tag cloud to your blog