Tag - You're It

+ What are Tags/Folksonomies

- Remember online bookmarks?
- You save interesting sites, and "tag" them (folders)
- Later rerieval/collection development of resources
- You can share your tagged sites with others (RSS)
- Tags can be private

+ Examples

- del.icio.us
- del.irio.us
- CiteULike (find it in your library?)
- Connotea
- Unalog
- Furl
- Flickr
- 43 Things

+ So?

- Adding to the collective intelligence
- Long tail of the web
- Different from search
- Good for ongoing reasearch projects
- Wisdom of the Crowds?- Does your library have a blog? You may do this already (categories)

- Other Stuff

- Gataga
- Easy tagging with bookmarklets

+ For libraries?

- Librarians sharing resources
- Go beyond search
- Tag catalog entries
- Tag articles on databases (can use the above resources)
- Tag books of interest (Have patrons do the same - book clubs)
- Teams/Departments can share resources easily

+ Compromise?

- Why only subject headings which are "unflexible"?
- Make the catalog a "two way" service (librarians and patrons)
- Meet in the middle?)