In my book, and even more so in an upcoming article I’ve written, I make myself one of the world’s biggest fans of keyword tags, or the system more well-known as folksonomy.
Obviously it’s a web 2.0 application because of the tag-based folksonomies.
A late night session at the computer revealed as much from the founder of Del.icio.us (who has since left Yahoo!) and Dilbert.
I make the case for students applying tags to things they’re learning about as a case for learning, since tagging is in effect a form of summarization. I’ve yet to put this to the test in research, but it would likely be a fun thing to study.
And there-in lies the case that my position may be all the more reason to label me a geek.
November 13th, 2008 at 11:40 am
As access to information and publishing methods grows, it follows that skills like sorting, cataloging, and summarizing will become more important. These are definitely things that I see some people struggling with…if someone doesn’t understand the difference between an upcoming event and an announcement based on the words alone, it’s really, really hard for them to learn that -and- how it applies to keeping their website’s information organized.
I’m annoyingly aware of the subject lines on emails I receive. I do web support, so I get lots of “question” and “webpage” and “help”. Overall, they seem to be much better lately — maybe this indicates that people are becoming more aware of metadata and its importance?