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Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web
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Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web

by Gene Smith
December 2007
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
216 pages
4h 39m
English
New Riders
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Chapter 1. What Is Tagging?

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A basic model of tagging systems

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Five different kinds of tagging systems

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Where tagging sits between personal information management, information architecture, and social software

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