[Sig-bwp] Scholarly Tagging Projects and Initiatives?

[Sam Joseph]

Have you seen CiteULike?

http://www.citeulike.org/

CHEERS> SAM

Gerry Mckiernan wrote:

>*** Apologies for Receipt of Duplicate Postings***
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>Scholarly Tagging Projects and Initiatives?
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>Colleagues/
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>I am greatly interested in Any and All current or planned initiatives that involve the Folksonomic Tagging of **Scholarly** articles, preprints, manuscripts, documents, or Other Publications by **Readers**.
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>As defined by Wikipedia,
>"Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords. More colloquially, this refers to a group of people cooperating spontaneously to organize information into categories, typically using categories or tags on pages, or semantic links with types that evolve without much central control."
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>[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy ]
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>The inspiration for my query is the ColLib project [ http://collib.info/ ] - "the collaborative platform for organizing Open Access materials in Library & Information Science (LIS)" developed by Magnus Enger. As noted, "colLib harvests metadata-records from OAI-PMH-compliant repositories and enables manual 'tagging' of these records to cluster them by subject or other meaningful categories. Tags are represented by pages in a wiki, that can be annotated with links to related tags, external links and any other text deemed relevant." [WOW: A WIKI! ]:-)
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>And Yes, I am aware of  Connotea 
>[ http://www.connotea.org  ] [http://www.connotea.org/about  ]
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>BTW: I highly recommend a Mos Interesting Article 
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>"Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular Engagement Exploring Collaborative Annotation to Encourage Interaction with Museum Collections" by David Bearman and Jennifer Trant from the September 2005 issue of _D-Lib  Magazine_
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>[ http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/bearman/09bearman.html ]
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>Regards,
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>/Gerry 
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>Gerry McKiernan
>Science and Technology Librarian
>Iowa State University Library 
>Ames IA 50011
>gerrymck at iastate.edu 
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