25th Apr 2010

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A glossary of terms related to social tagging

There are many terms related to –and many times created because of– the social tagging phenomenon. The following is a list of terms that are relevant to social tagging. This list may become larger throughout…

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28th Aug 2009

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Enhancing Navigation on Wikipedia with Social Tags (slides)

If you are interested in my presentation about “Enhancing Navigation on Wikipedia with Social Tags”, in Wikimania 2009, you can download the slides using the following links: English Spanish Tweet Share/Save

7th Jul 2009

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Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web

I’ve recently read the book “Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web“, by Gene Smith, an interesting overview on the art of tagging. I would recommend it to whomever is interested in discovering what tags…

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12th Feb 2009

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Social tagging or folksonomy? Do they have the same meaning?

Do social tagging and folksonomy have the same meaning? I think this remains an unsolved issue. One might say social tagging and folksonomy refer to the same concept or idea, but others might not agree….

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