Social bookmarking and exploratory search Export

@incollection{citeulike:1842810, abstract = {In this paper, we explore various search tasks that are supported by a social bookmarking service. These bookmarking services hold great potential to powerfully combine personal tagging of information sources with interactive browsing, resulting in better social navigation. While there has been considerable interest in social tagging systems in recent years, little is known about their actual usage. In this paper, we present the results of a field study of a social bookmarking service that has been deployed in a large enterprise. We present new qualitative and quantitative data on how a corporate social tagging system was used, through both event logs (click level analysis) and interviews. We observed three types of search activities: community browsing, personal search, and explicit search. Community browsing was the most frequently used, and confirms the value of the social aspects of the system. We conclude that social bookmarking services support various kinds of exploratory search, and provide better personal bookmark management and enhance social navigation.}, author = {Millen, David and Yang, Meng and Whittaker, Steven and Feinberg, Jonathan}, booktitle = {10th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work}, citeulike-article-id = {1842810}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-031-5_2}, doi = {10.1007/978-1-84800-031-5_2}, journal = {ECSCW 2007}, keywords = {folksonomies, social-information-retrieval, social-metrics}, pages = {21--40}, posted-at = {2008-09-15 13:53:25}, priority = {2}, title = {Social bookmarking and exploratory search}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-031-5_2}, year = {2007} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1842810 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1842810 N2 - In this paper, we explore various search tasks that are supported by a social bookmarking service. These bookmarking services hold great potential to powerfully combine personal tagging of information sources with interactive browsing, resulting in better social navigation. While there has been considerable interest in social tagging systems in recent years, little is known about their actual usage. In this paper, we present the results of a field study of a social bookmarking service that has been deployed in a large enterprise. We present new qualitative and quantitative data on how a corporate social tagging system was used, through both event logs (click level analysis) and interviews. We observed three types of search activities: community browsing, personal search, and explicit search. Community browsing was the most frequently used, and confirms the value of the social aspects of the system. We conclude that social bookmarking services support various kinds of exploratory search, and provide better personal bookmark management and enhance social navigation. JF - ECSCW 2007 EP - 40 TI - Social bookmarking and exploratory search T2 - 10th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work SP - 21 KW - folksonomies KW - social-information-retrieval KW - social-metrics AU - Millen, David AU - Yang, Meng AU - Whittaker, Steven AU - Feinberg, Jonathan PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-031-5_2 ER -