Archive for the ‘Tagging’ Category

The speaker presentation files for the recent Web 2.0 Expo which was held April 22-25, 2008 in San Francisco, CA are now available. If you weren’t able to attend the popular O’Reilly conference, you can still access the 50+ sessions including:

• Games 2.0: Why the Future of Games Looks More Like Zombies and Scrabulous and Less Like Halo 3
• How to Create Successful Unconferences, BarCamps, & Meetups for Almost No $$
• Social Data: Collecting, Mining, and Using it in Your Applications
• Taking Web 2.0 Offline and On the Desktop
• The Next Generation of Tagging: Searching and Discovering a Better User Experience

Less than two weeks ago we saw the Library of Congress partner with the photo-sharing website Flickr in a pilot project called The Commons to display some 3,100 historical photos, (Read our earlier coverage here). Within days of the project launch, the LOC received an overwhelming response. According to their blog, here’s a summary of what happened within the first two days:

• 392,000 views on the photostream
• 650,000 views of photos
• Adding in set and collection page views, there were about 1.1 million total views on our account
• All 3,100+ photos have been viewed
• 420 of the photos have comments
• 1,200 of the photos have been favorited

And just look at all of those tags!

As many of you may have heard, The Library of Congress has partnered with Flickr to display their historical photo collections in a social environment. They have uploaded two sets of photos with over 1,500 images each and have invited Flickr users to help describe them by assigning tags to photos. Users can also place comments on the images. The collections include “News in the 1910s” - a collection consisting of sporting events, crime, politics, and entertainment news photos, and “1930s-40s in Color” including photos of farming, factory life, railroads, and women working from 1939-1944. Check them out and add some tags!

New TagMaps from Yahoo! let you explore a world of Flickr geotagged images within an interactive map which you can display on your own website. The new mashup overlays user-created Flickr tags, on a Yahoo! world map. Tags can be clicked on to view photos taken in that geographic region. You can embed a TagMap onto your own website, or use the API they have available to create a customized TagMap of your own. This is a research prototype from Yahoo! Research Berkeley.

Via Micro Persuasion

Melissa L. Rethlefsen discusses tagging and social bookmarking in her Library Journal article Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us. Rethlefsen talks about tagging in del.icio.us, LibraryThing, and LibMarks, as well as tagging implementations in libraries, and specific features such as tag bundling, tag clouds, and rss feeds for tags.

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The social book cataloging app, LibraryThing released an interesting feature this summer called the tagmash. It allows users to conduct a search for multiple tags and have the website mash them together with all their variant tags, providing for a comprehensive search of the collection.

In anticipation of Halloween next month, I tried out a search for some scary reads. Here’s my tagmash for the search query : fiction, horror, vampires, -anne rice. LibraryThing has aggregated all of the variant ways which users have spelled and cataloged their books with the terms fiction including with capitalization and possible misspellings. It did the same for the other tags, including “genre: horror” within my mash as well as the singular “vampire”.

I got back the top 250 books which are relevant to my search, as well as related tags to search, and additionally a list of related tagmashes, and related subjects. To try out your own tagmash, you can search by tag on the main search page.