Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems
Journal of Information Science
The complex dynamics of collaborative tagging
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking
Organization Science
Understanding the efficiency of social tagging systems using information theory
Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
How Useful Are Tags? -- An Empirical Analysis of Collaborative Tagging for Web Page Recommendation
PAISI, PACCF and SOCO '08 Proceedings of the IEEE ISI 2008 PAISI, PACCF, and SOCO international workshops on Intelligence and Security Informatics
Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web
Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web
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It is widely believed that users choose meaningful tags; that the combinations of these tags from multiple users helps to elicit meaning for tagged objects; and that implicit communities can be discovered among the users who use a particular tag or tag a particular object. We examine data on tagging practices from the Delicious web site (delicious.com) and find that there is little support for any of these beliefs. Although users individually do seem to have a small set of tags that they use in a controlled and effective way, they also use very large sets of other tags in a much more haphazard way. These poorly managed tags obscure much of the collective sense making and implicit community structure. We derive some suggestions for improving collaborative tagging systems.