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Collaborative Web Tagging Workshop du 22/05/05, tous les articles sont accessibles en PDF

Gordon Luk’s Freetag, an Open Source Tagging / Folksonomy module for PHP/MySQL applications

* Misspelt tags (e.g., libary, libray) * Badly encoded tags, such as unlikely compound word groupings (e.g.,TimBernersLee) * Tags that do not follow convention in issues such as case and number; singular versus plural form (e.g., apple, apples) * Personal tags that are without meaning to the wider community (e.g., mydog) * Single-use tags that appear only once in the database. (e.g., billybobsdog)

1. Introduction A folksonomy is a type of distributed classification system. It is usually created by a group of individuals, typically the resource users. Users add tags to online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks and text. These tags are then shared and sometimes refined. A general review of social bookmarking tools, one popular use area of folksonomies, was given in the April edition of D-Lib [1]. In the article the authors elaborate on the approach taken by social classification systems and the motivators behind tagging. They write, "...tags are just one kind of metadata and are not a replacement for formal classification systems such as Dublin Core, MODS, etc.... Rather, they are a supplemental means to organise information and order search results."

Phonetags, an experimental internal service that we've been running inside the BBC which allows you to bookmark, tag and rate songs you've heard on the radio with your mobile phone.

Share your collection online. Uses ajax, tags and rss feeds.

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Good article on folksonomies and the present state/future possibilities of tagging

free, Web based RSS/ATOM aggregator and bookmarks manager.

...lots of little chequered [del.icio.us] images....

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