[Sigia-l] FEB MEETING - Tagging: It's the Interface Stupid!

[Dave Cooksey]

*Apologies for Cross Posting*

Tagging: It's the Interface Stupid
A presentation by Joseph A. Busch, Founder and Principal, Taxonomy  
Strategies LLC

Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Time: 6 - 8 pm
Location: GSI Commerce, Inc., 935 First Avenue, King of Prussia, PA
RSVP: Please let us know if you are coming at phillyCHI at gmail.com

Interest in content user-assigned tags is one of the big new stories  
on the Web. But content tagging is not a new story. What’s new about  
Web 2.0 is that end users are doing the tagging instead of  
librarians, and the results are being shown almost instantly on  
websites like flickr, del.icio.us, Wikipedia, and  
Technorati.Librarians have long contended that end users cannot  
usefully tag content because they are not trained in how to do  
indexing. More correctly, end users cannot tag content the way  
librarians tag content. But this begs the question about what kind of  
tagging is useful.

Joseph Busch will discuss the usefulness to be found in tagging as it  
relates to librarians and usability professionals, the Semantic Web,  
and document and content management practices.

Joseph Busch is the Founder and a Principal of Taxonomy Strategies.  
Joseph is an authority in the field of information science, a past  
President of the American Society for Information Science and  
Technology, and an appointee to the Board of Directors of the Dublin  
Core Metadata Initiative. He is a frequent speaker on metadata,  
taxonomy, indexing, classification research, information retrieval,  
and content management. Read more about Joseph at Taxonomy Strategies.

The February meeting is sponsored by GSI Commerce, Inc. in King of  
Prussia, PA. GSI Commerce is a leading provider of outsourced e- 
commerce solutions for approximately 50 partners. More information  
about GSI Commerce, Inc. can be found at gsicommerce.com.