Social tagging wrapup

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Very rough, possibly wrong--please edit and expand!

barbara Wildemuth: uses of tags finding/refinding; browsing/navigation; gaining new idea; reminder/followups (action)

Cal Lee: Would add sensemaking to Barbara's list -- object that was tagged or person doing the tagging

Cliff Lampe: norm-shaping, esp when low opp for feedback on behavior

Halpin: lack of easily accessible empirical data

Andrea..: how tags enable connections between people/groups ; unique may be most interesting, unique tags may be more compelling than common tags

nicole ellison: tagging people, profile, self tagging

addy lee: tagging people, privacy, controlling own identity -- approval system means non-credible system

Susan Gov: others responding to my tags kind of scary -- few people even tagging -- how can we motivate people to tag more? Knowing that they may loose control over tags may decrease willingness to tag.

sarita yardi: explore tagging outside academic use -- very different socialization processes

simon spero: tagsonomy - taxonomy of tags -- order is emerging and we can clarify what we mean by tagging

jade coutts: narrow view of tagging in education -- purpose and internal motivation for using social tool. How does tagging change when used in an educational setting?

kate dawson : how to go to digital content without laborious metadata methods, what if education materials were tagged by the students?

sri Kalyanaraman: mechanism or model -- what are extrinsic and intrinsic motivations. information scent.

Amanda Lenhart : value is subjective to individual -- attempting to measure value is re-expertising -- maybe questions about value are the wrong questions

lilly nguyen: blends of top down/bottom up, how would you implement hierarchies/control to folksonomies

jung sun oh : perhaps the data is too rich -- what is a good way/methodology to study this

deborah barreau : people who are doing the tagging and needing to know more about them

cathy marshall : personal digital archiving tagging of self over the long term?

kristina spurgin : we need to understand different ways people are tagging or using tags before we can evaluate them. Need to talk to people.

gary marchionini : old wine new bottle, difference is scale -- scary, lots more machine cycles exist than cognitive cycles -- we all want to become the borg

alla zollers : need to take many different perspectives, how do people build communities

alice marwick : tags as identity expression -- who gets privileged in these systems

fred : what does our tag cloud say about us? what does the 'long tail' of the tag cloud say about us? what can be harvested from it

janna anderson : taggers are looking inward, people on outside are seeing that. need to think about ethics. are people tagging ethically? what would tagging ethics be? what is responsible tagging?

senom : tagging still a baby technology, useful in many ways, but soon it will be become more complex and multidimensional

laura sheble : many potential values according to context; different ways to traverse tags needed

zeynep : web resonates with social side and information needs ; social tagging is right at intersection ; value of tag depends on where on that grid you are acting

thomas vanderwal : various tagging tangents -- make sure tools don't break off tangents -- it is all these things, but every tag is sacred ; the tag cloud -- not a fan, from doing user testing -- people lose what they are trying to do and get distracted by big terms -- need work on visualization component

chirag shah : learning about people from tags and problems with that ; evaluation metrics

songphan : metadata becomes data and data becomes metadata ; we add context to the data, then metacontext etc -- we haven't talked about some contexts much -- emotional, for example

carolyn hank : vocabulary changes -- what's sufficient for the tag to be useful for retrieval and context ; delicious is great, but I get a little nervous about what those tags are linking to.

jacob kramer-duffield : many somethings are happening -- we need to identify and give names to the sub-somethings.

terrell russell : tagging is very democratic and that's why we like it but if the students get same vote as professor, that seems weird -- we already have a value system based on knowledge and expertise, and it seems senseless -- all the tags don't have to be equal

jackson fox -- what is the value of tagging in 15 years? is this a flash in the pan? ; interfaces and tools to do tagging are also very new and there are so many more things we could do in the interface to increase usefulness

erik mitchell -- words can have many meanings ; how do we know what people mean by their tags -- are there derivable uses of this stuff or is it just personal information management