August 2007
Beginner
416 pages
12h 16m
English
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QUESTIONS
Apart from those listed in Table 12-1, name three other web-based resources that could be tagged. What are potential unique aspects of tagging those resources? How would navigation to those resources be improved with tagging?
Consider the four modes of information seeking proposed by Donna Maurer as outlined in Chapter 2. How does a social tagging system handle each?
Known-item searching
Exploration
Don't know what you need to know
Re-finding
Search tags on a popular service such as del.icio.us or Flickr for a compound phrase, such as "cell phone" or "web design" or any other two-word phrase. Be sure to search tags only. Then vary the form of that term by joining and combining the words, such as cell-phone, cellphone, and cell-phone. Use the plural forms as well and search tags only again. Compare the resulting resources that are returned for each.
What are the differences?
What is gained or lost by changing the form of the word?
Is something missed by changing the word form? Is that a problem?
Create an account for two popular bookmarking services, such as del.icio.us, BlinkList, Ma.gnolia, or CiteULike, if you aren't already registered. Bookmark at least ten new pages in each. Compare the process of:
Creating tags
Navigating your own tags
Navigating other peoples tags
What aspects are better or worse in each service? Why? If you were to make your top three recommendations to the owners of each service to improve each of the above, what would they be?
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