Transcript Web20_Tagging

Outline
Tagging
Social Bookmarking
Photosharing
What is a tag?
Word used to describe something
Purpose is to try to organize digital content and
make it easier to find
How much content is on the web?
http://contently.com/blog/how-much-content-ison-the-web/
Sites using Tags
Flickr
Blogs
Twitter
You Tube
Steve Museum Project
Wisdom of Crowds
Inclusive
Current
What term would you use to
describe these books?
Wisdom of Crowds
Inclusive
Current
Community
Usability
Cult of the Amateur
No synonym control
Lack of hierarchy
Lack of recall
Susceptible to “gaming”
Geotagging
Providing geographic co-ordinates for web
content (photos, videos, web sites)
Capture GPS info or attach to a map
http://www.flickr.com/maps
Hands on Exercise
Google Images
http://images.google.com/imagelabeler
Tag Clouds
Way of visualizing what something is about
Example – http://www.librarything.com
Tag Cloud Creators
Hands On
http://www.wordle.net/create
Bookmarking Survey
Who uses bookmarks or favourites to keep track
of web sites in their browser?
Bookmarking Survey
Who uses bookmarks or favourites to keep track
of web sites in their browser?
Do you have identical bookmarks at home/work?
Bookmarking Survey
Who uses bookmarks or favourites to keep track
of web sites in their browser?
Do you have identical bookmarks at home/work?
Do you use folders to organize your bookmarks?
Bookmarking Survey
Who uses bookmarks or favourites to keep track
of web sites in their browser?
Do you have identical bookmarks at home/work?
Do you use folders to organize your bookmarks?
Can you easily re-find your bookmarks?
Bookmarking Survey
Who uses bookmarks or favourites to keep track of
web sites in their browser?
Do you have identical bookmarks at home/work?
Do you use folders to organize your bookmarks?
Can you easily re-find your bookmarks?
How do you send a selection of bookmarks to a
colleague?
Social Bookmarking
Saving bookmarks to a public web site
Create an account at a social book marking site
Add bookmarks
Add tags
Configure privacy settings
Social Bookmarking Sites
Delicious
• Founded 2003
• Purchased by Yahoo
2005
• http://www.delicious.com
Log in to Delicious
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Social Bookmarking in
Teaching and Learning
In research
Mechanism for building learning communities
Informal, formative feedback
Development of personal knowledge
management abilities
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