How do you define the value of tags

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A card task was posed, asking attendees how to "value tags" - i.e. what facets might be useful for evaluating importance of tags in a tagging system.

Responses

  • Popularity, expertise of creator, recency
  • How many of the same word
  • Understandability
  • When was the tag created? By whom? In what context?
  • Topicality
  • Evocativeness
  • Precision of meaning
  • Length of tag
  • Uniqueness/added value over words in item tagged
  • Easy to understand by itself
  • Source/provenance
  • Goldilocks scenario (not too soft/not too hard)
  • Adequate for context without redundancy
  • Ability to make sense of the object tagged, or the person or organization that applied the tag
  • Economic value: Would I pay for it?
  • Knowledge generation: Did I learn from it?
  • Most popular/frequent
  • Reuse value
  • Common vocabulary/extended use/provides identity of an object for the purpose of locating at a later time/for a new purpose.
  • Tagged by another trusted person
  • Utility of material tagged to the individual consumer
  • The number of times different user would apply the tag to the same source.
  • Is it not derivable from content?
  • New knowledge
  • Individual tags have no value once in public - they only have value in the aggregate
  • Specificity
  • Helps me describe/categorize/find
  • Allows tagger to re-find item tagged
  • How many people tag the same term
  • Language of the tag
  • Interstingness
  • Simplicity
  • Frequency of use
  • What type of feature does the tag describe
  • Spelling
  • Tags are good when their meaning is obvious and immediate
  • Context attached
  • Age of tag
  • How ofter I used my tags to find other ppl's stuff.
  • Does it change the course of history
  • The extent to which it binds or bring people with shared perspectives together.
  • Can students' practices of tagging be used to assess how well they understand a concept or argument?
  • Who identifies with a tag?
  • Good tags have lots of meaning - personal connectedness.
  • Quality of concept
  • Recallability success
  • Amount of time it takes a person to find what they are really looking for
  • Expertise of creator of tag
  • How well the tag helps in retrieval
  • Identity concepts
  • Number of concepts to which tags attach
  • Recency
  • Number of people using a tag/tag stats
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