[Sigia-l] Research papers on tagging

[Paola Kathuria]

Stephen Collins wrote:
> On another list, I'm having a discussion with an unbeliever  
> (ooooohhh!) about the value of tagging. His argument is that given  
> everything is searchable, everything automatically becomes a tag he  
> can use and tagging is therefore, noise.

On Flickr, for example, I add tags to enhance findability. The
tags don't duplicate information in the text.

So, I'll add 'London' and 'England' (because there's more than one
London) to a photo I took of a building, or 'flower' to the photos
of my yellow peony.

In the absence of a controlled taxonomy that people can choose
from, tags are a way of providing the context that otherwise
can't be extracted from just parsing the content.


Paola
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