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A presentation given by Matt Moore at ANZSI 2011.
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Folksonomies
ANZSI Conference 2011Matt MooreInnotecture
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Agenda Folksonomies Linked Data Australian Taxonomy Survey
+Folksonomies
“Folksonomy is the result of personal free tagging of information and objects (anything with a URL) for one's own retrieval. The tagging is done in a social environment (usually shared and open to others). Folksonomy is created from the act of tagging by the person consuming the information.
The value in this external tagging is derived from people using their own vocabulary and adding explicit meaning, which may come from inferred understanding of the information/object. People are not so much categorizing, as providing a means to connect items (placing hooks) to provide their meaning in their own understanding.
In a few conversations around folksonomy and tagging in 2004 I stated, "folksonomy is tagging that works". This is still a strong belief the three tenets of a folksonomy: 1) tag; 2) object being tagged; and 3) identity, are core to disambiguation of tag terms and provide for a rich understanding of the object being tagged.”
By: Thomas Vander Wal
On: 2 February 2007
http://vanderwal.net/folksonomy.html
+Folksonomies
“Folksonomy is the result of personal free tagging of information and objects (anything with a URL) for one's own retrieval. The tagging is done in a social environment (usually shared and open to others). Folksonomy is created from the act of tagging by the person consuming the information.
The value in this external tagging is derived from people using their own vocabulary and adding explicit meaning, which may come from inferred understanding of the information/object. People are not so much categorizing, as providing a means to connect items (placing hooks) to provide their meaning in their own understanding.
In a few conversations around folksonomy and tagging in 2004 I stated, "folksonomy is tagging that works". This is still a strong belief the three tenets of a folksonomy: 1) tag; 2) object being tagged; and 3) identity, are core to disambiguation of tag terms and provide for a rich understanding of the object being tagged.”
By: Thomas Vander Wal
On: 2 February 2007
http://vanderwal.net/folksonomy.html
Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/
+Survey Background
Who?
LibrariansRecords ManagersKnowledge ManagersInformation Architects
Where? Government = 38%
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USED FOR:
Browsing
Search
Retrieval
Sense Making
60% Classifies
19% Controlled
Vocab
21%Hierarchy
WHERE'S THE BUSINESS BABY?
What is a taxonomy?
+Taxonomy Use
28%
14%
24%
34%
Does your organisation use taxonomies in the management of it’s information?
Yes, developed by both selves & other orgs
Yes, developed by ourselves
Yes, developed by other orgs
No
+Software Use
Does your organisation use any specialist software?
Yes 31%
No 69%
+Taxonomy Maturity
Don't KnowDo Not UseSophisticatedTypicalRhudimentary
6%
21%
8%
45%
21%
+Improving Taxonomies
Yes - we are doing so
Yes, but we do not have the knowledge
Yes, but we do not have resources
No, we are happy
32%
28%
49%
18%
“Yes, but the management don’t understand taxonomy and can’t communicate it well, so it’s enforced and used badly by most”
“No, there is no business driver to do so”
“Yes, but there is little understanding of what
is at middle management level
and therefore no commitment”
+Taxonomy Skills
Planning a Taxonomy Project
Creating a business case
Using facet analysis
Managing folksonomies
Developing an ontology
Using SharePoint to manage taxonomy
Using specialist Taxonomy sofftware
Selecting & applying an existing Taxonomy
Using tests such as card sorting for taxonomy evaluation
Selecting and applying an existing ontology
83%
76%
64%
44%
34%
32%
32%
27%
16%
7%
+Conclusions
1. Don't believe (all) the hype…
2. …but do pay attention.
3. Talk about user / business outcomes not information management ones