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Vanessa Vaile

Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata - 1 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 30 Jan 10 - Cached
  • This paper examines user-‍generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification.
  • metadata has generally been approached in two ways: professional creation and author creation
  • creating metadata, primarily in the form of catalog records, has traditionally been the domain of dedicated professionals working with complex, detailed rule sets and vocabularies
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  • A second approach is for metadata to be created by authors.
  • There are problems with this approach as well
  • This paper examines a third approach: user-‍created metadata, where users of the documents and media create metadata for their own individual use that is also shared throughout a community.
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