How do you define the value of tags
From SocialSoftwareSymposium
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.
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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
