tagging: five emerging trends
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My talk on tagging trends from the 2008 IA Summit.TRANSCRIPT
TaggingFive Emerging Trends
Information Architecture SummitMiami, FL
April 12, 2008
Tagging, the book
← My book... available now!
Book site: http://genesmith.ca
User Resource
Tags
Five Trends
• More Structure
• Automanual Folksonomies
• Leveraging Communities
• Rethinking Pace Layers
• Sparking Innovation
More Structure
Structure
Sticky
Not Sticky
User Resource
Tags
Resource
CD
Metadata from songs can be aggregated to describe albums and artists.
CD CD
Artist Artist
http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/09/how_to_build_on_bubbleup_folksonomies/
Leveraging Communities
“humor” vs “humour”
British SpellingDouglas AdamsTerry Pratchett
P.G. WodehouseBill Bryson
American SpellingJon Stewart
David SedarisThe Onion
Douglas Adams
Automanual Folksonomies
“I notice a hesitance toward hard-coded semantics and manual work--people think these things won’t scale. I learned to mix it up... a small amount semantics on top of minimal structure can work wonders.”
- Peter Van Dijck
Rethinking Pace Layers
http://www.visuallee.com/weblog/images/brand_keynote_400.jpg
Fast
Slow
Content, Services, Interface
Adaptive Finding Tools
Controlled Vocabulary
Enabling Technologies
Embedded Navigation Systems
Faceted Classification Schemes
http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000003.php
“For quite some time, I have believed this concept of pace layering holds great promise... In this discussion of metadata, the potential for a unifying architecture is self-evident. Semantic Web tools and standards create a powerful and enduring foundation. Taxonomies and ontologies provide a solid semantic network that connects interface to infrastructure. And the fast-moving, fashionable folksonomies sit on top: flexible, adaptable, and responsive to user feedback.”
- Peter Morville
“Ajax”
Stability
“Ajax”Stability
Fragment. Break text into tags.
Facet. Divide tags in facets.
Filter. Use tags to help filter resources.
Sparking Innovation
Any Text String
Write Read
geotagged
geo:lat=54.1423
geo:long=-113.1232
Marker Tag
Machine Tags}
upcoming:event=171852
namespace : key = value
clothing:size="large"blog:via="http://atomiq.org"dc:title="Tagging"geo:long=113.132
Flickr
Dan Catt
Innovation
Flickr Users
Developers
Job at Flickr
Useful Tools
New API Methods
Five Trends
• More Structure
• Automanual Folksonomies
• Leveraging Communities
• Rethinking Pace Layers
• Sparking Innovation
Gene Smith
Principal, nForm User Experience
Email: [email protected]
Blog: http://atomiq.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/gsmith
Slides: http://slideshare.net/gsmith