Folksonomy, Authority, Findability
- 1. Architecture Technology Education Architecture of Learning Environments E19.2017 (Image: Zarazoga Digital Mile, accessed from http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/zaragoza-digital-mile.html)
- 2. Week 4: Issues Folksonomies Authority Findability
- 3. Folksonomies: Tagging Semantic tags generated by individuals to make meaning of information ---allow personal connections to meaning But is this about categorization? Bottom-up, socially generated? ---Peter Morville quotes Dave Sifry: “ Unlike rigid taxonomy schemes that people dislike, the ease of tagging for personal organization with social incentives leads to a rich and discoverable folksonomy . Intelligence is provided by real people from the bottom-up to aid social discovery. And with the right tag search and navigation, folksonomy outperforms more structured approaches to classification.” (http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000057.php)
- 4. Tagging- Social Tagging Tags have 3 points of information (from Vanderwal.net) : 1- The person tagging 2- Object being tagged 3- The tag used on the object Emphasis on Social Aspect: ---Creating social connections ---Sharing meanings, information However, is the information FINDABLE ?
- 5. FINDABILITY For information to be findable, are hierarchical categorization structures better? Google Search is robust because, as Peter Morville points out, it relies on: * Full Text. Matching keywords in the query and content. * Information Architecture. Analyzing the internal link structure and hand-crafted metadata of each web site. * Free Tagging. Leveraging the links between web sites.
- 6. Question: Looking for information- would you go to: Del.icio.us? Wikipedia? Google? WHY? What is the relationship between searching and browsing?
- 7. Authority How do we establish the authority of the information? Morville mentions these tendencies: 1. Anchoring- to be influenced by the first information we find. 2. Confirmation- we subconsciously seek data that supports our existing point of view .