“Tagging 2.0” – is tagging (user-driven description of data on the Web) *THE* key element of “Web 2.0”? What new tools can help us organize an internet’s worth of information for our own use and to share with others? Tagging systems are taking off now, what are the issues for communities of users and for those just trying to make sense of their own stuff? This session will show what’s new with tagging and get insights from a variety of perspectives, from folksonomies to the Semantic Web.
Moderator: Don Turnbull Asst Professor, Univ of Texas at Austin
Adina Levin VP Prod, Socialtext
Prentiss Riddle Tech Evangelist, Shadows.com
Rashmi Sinha Uzanto
Thomas Vander Wal Principal & Sr Consultant, InfoCloud Solutions Inc
Don Turnbull Asst Professor, Univ of Texas at Austin
panel notes:
– what is tagging? more than just categorizing, we are labeling
– what are uses of tags? using them to describe things, people, linking users by interest, user as a personal archive system,
– tags are good for discovery
‘It may be more interesting to find a like mind than a resource recommendation’
problems with tags:
– tag spaming
– tag clouds are probably not the answer, how to make users use tags?
– we can loose subtleties of language
– no hierarchy or ranking
what will tagging 10.0 be?
how will the use of tags move from early adopters to mainstream?