Been there – tagged that

Delicious, Technorati and social bookmarking

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Doesn’t tempus fugit

Week 5: Tagging, Del.icio.us & Technorati

Thing 8 Learn about tagging and discover Delicious (a social bookmarking site)

Thing 9 Explore Technorati (a search engine for searching blogs) and learn how tags work with blog posts

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DISCLAIMER

Everyone is an expert

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Tagging

Describes and/or Organises stuff

so that (in theory) you can easily

Access stuff

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much the same as…

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Extreme Tagging

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MARC Record

Control freaks

• Dictate fields to be filled

• Dictate what fields are filled with

AND

• Dictate how fields are filled

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Standard Description Terms

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Not just information

“Phylogenetic Tree” downloaded from Wikimedia Commons 02/04/09 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phylogenetic_tree.svg

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Birds

Mammals

Reptiles

Human

Description Rules

Identifying flowers using a key.Answer questions in key to identify species

1. Plants without flowers, or submerged aquatic plants with minute, inconspicuous flowers ……. See Vegetative Key, p 48

Plants with flowers present ……. 2

And so on until you identify flower

Rose, F. (1981) “The Wild Flower Key” Frederick Warne:London

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Costly Exercise

• Expertise needed

• Heavy workload

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• Quality Assured

Cataloguing the Web?

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Search the Web

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Method 1

Method 2

• Describe what you create, find, see, use, love, hate…

Tag it

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Lighten the workload if everyone pitches in

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Sharing is Caring

Deliciously social

+• Reading list/ Resource links• Finding and sharing with like minded souls• Portable bookmarks• Who is visiting you and why?

-• Why do you need another application?• Too much information

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Google does Blogs

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Techno-thank-you

+• Authority

-• Buggy• Search is sensitive

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Value Added Tags

• Tag so you can find it again

• Tag so they can find it

• Tag to give context

• Tag to share ideas

• Tag to give us all a good laugh

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• Standardised cataloguing and classifying is important.

• Easier to find something when you know what you’re looking for.

Rules help us control the fun

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• Web is a form of free expression, for everyone – not controlled.

• Tagging is informal and informative

Tagging has Personality

There is Beauty in Chaos

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• http://www.loc.gov/standards/ • http://dublincore.org/

• http://delicious.com/ • http://technorati.com/

• http://ul23things.blogspot.com/• http://blogsearch.google.ie/

Resources

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