Uncorking the Varietals: Social Tagging, Folksonomies & Controlled Vocabularies
Choosing our Tools for Tomorrow: 2008 OLC Technical Services Retreat.
April 1-2, 2008, Loudonville, Ohio
Libraries' traditional resource discovery tools are professionally designed, mediated, and controlled. Social tagging and folksonomies are dynamic categorization systems that require little or no professional mediation. Are these two approaches destined to compete or do they really compliment and enhance each other? What are their roles in the library catalog, in the library intranet and on the Internet? What does this year's vintage look like?