EnTag: enhancing social tagging for discovery Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4882450, abstract = {The EnTag (Enhanced Tagging for Discovery) project investigated the effect on indexing and retrieval when using only social tagging versus when using social tagging in combination with suggestions from a controlled vocabulary. Two different contexts were explored: tagging by readers of a digital collection and tagging by authors in an institutional repository; also two different controlled vocabularies were examined, Dewey Decimal Classification and ACM Computing Classification Scheme. For each context a separate demonstrator was developed and a user study conducted. The results showed the importance of controlled vocabulary suggestions for both indexing and retrieval: to help produce ideas of tags to use, to make it easier to find focus for the tagging, as well as to ensure consistency and increase the number of access points in retrieval. The value and usefulness of the suggestions proved to be dependent on the quality of the suggestions, both in terms of conceptual relevance to the user and in appropriateness of the terminology. The participants themselves could also see the advantages of controlled vocabulary terms for retrieval if the terms used were from an authoritative source.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Golub, Koraljka and Moon, Jim and Tudhope, Douglas and Jones, Catherine and Matthews, Brian and Puzod, Bartbomiej and Nielsen, Marianne L.}, booktitle = {JCDL '09: Proceedings of the 2009 joint international conference on Digital libraries}, citeulike-article-id = {4882450}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1555400.1555427}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1555400.1555427}, doi = {10.1145/1555400.1555427}, isbn = {978-1-60558-322-8}, keywords = {collaborative\_tagging, controlled\_vocabularies, folksonomies, interfaces, user-studies}, location = {Austin, TX, USA}, pages = {163--172}, posted-at = {2009-06-17 18:01:29}, priority = {4}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {EnTag: enhancing social tagging for discovery}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1555400.1555427}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4882450 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4882450 N2 - The EnTag (Enhanced Tagging for Discovery) project investigated the effect on indexing and retrieval when using only social tagging versus when using social tagging in combination with suggestions from a controlled vocabulary. Two different contexts were explored: tagging by readers of a digital collection and tagging by authors in an institutional repository; also two different controlled vocabularies were examined, Dewey Decimal Classification and ACM Computing Classification Scheme. For each context a separate demonstrator was developed and a user study conducted. The results showed the importance of controlled vocabulary suggestions for both indexing and retrieval: to help produce ideas of tags to use, to make it easier to find focus for the tagging, as well as to ensure consistency and increase the number of access points in retrieval. The value and usefulness of the suggestions proved to be dependent on the quality of the suggestions, both in terms of conceptual relevance to the user and in appropriateness of the terminology. The participants themselves could also see the advantages of controlled vocabulary terms for retrieval if the terms used were from an authoritative source. CY - Austin, TX, USA SN - 978-1-60558-322-8 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 172 TI - EnTag: enhancing social tagging for discovery PB - ACM T2 - JCDL '09: Proceedings of the 2009 joint international conference on Digital libraries SP - 163 KW - collaborative_tagging KW - controlled_vocabularies KW - folksonomies KW - interfaces KW - user-studies AU - Golub, Koraljka AU - Moon, Jim AU - Tudhope, Douglas AU - Jones, Catherine AU - Matthews, Brian AU - Puzod, Bartbomiej AU - Nielsen, Marianne PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1555400.1555427 ER -