The vocabulary problem in human-system communication
Communications of the ACM
Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems
Journal of Information Science
Optimizing web search using social annotations
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Using social annotations to improve language model for information retrieval
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management
Can social bookmarking improve web search?
WSDM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
Exploring social annotations for information retrieval
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Harvana: harvesting community tags to enrich collection metadata
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Real-time automatic tag recommendation
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Tag Recommendations in Folksonomies
PKDD 2007 Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
Can all tags be used for search?
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Social tags: meaning and suggestions
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
Exploring social tagging graph for web object classification
Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
A sophisticated library search strategy using folksonomies and similarity matching
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Metadata Effectiveness: A Comparison between User-Created Social Tags and Author-Provided Metadata
HICSS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Tags vs shelves: from social tagging to social classification
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Journal of Information Science
Perceptions, quality and motivational needs in image tagging human computation games
Journal of Information Science
Bridging informal tagging and formal semantics via hybrid navigation
Journal of Information Science
Social book search: comparing topical relevance judgements and book suggestions for evaluation
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
A methodology for folksonomy evaluation
TPDL'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
A self-adapted method for the categorization of social resources
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Journal of Information Science
Keyword extraction for blogs based on content richness
Journal of Information Science
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Social tagging, as a recent approach for creating metadata, has caught the attention of library and information science researchers. Many researchers recommend incorporating social tagging into the library environment and combining folksonomies with formal classification. However, some researchers are concerned with the quality issues of social annotation because of its uncontrolled nature. In this study, we compare social tags created by users from the LibraryThing website with the subject terms assigned by experts according to the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). The purpose of this study is to examine the difference and connections between social tags and expert-assigned subject terms and further explore the feasibility and obstacles of implementing social tagging in library systems. The results of our study show that it is possible to use social tags to improve the accessibility of library collections. However, the existence of non-subject-related tags may impede the application of social tagging in traditional library cataloguing systems.