I was honored to join the conversation yesterday for the latest Talis Library 2.0 Gang podcast, this one on folksonomies and tags. The MP3 is already posted and, as usual, it makes me wonder if I really sound like that. Still, listen to the other participants, they had some great things to say and made [...]
Posted July 27, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: folksonomies, folksonomy, interview, l2, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library catalogs, library systems, opacs, podcast, tagging, tags, talis, talking with talis. 5 Comments.
Flickr does tags better than any other, so far as I can tell.
We love tag folksonomies for way they allow us all to organize our world, for the way they allow patterns to emerge from chaos, and for their easy flexibility. But that flexibility, if poorly implemented in our software, can interrupt the very patterns [...]
Posted March 6, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: Best Practice, doing it right, flickr, folksonomies, folksonomy, tag, tagging, tags. 2 Comments.