Have just found this study of tagging and health resources completed earlier this year on the CILIP cataloguing site.
Conclusions of the study propose that tags could be a useful addition to controlled vocabularies:
“The differing terminology use in tag lists suggests that tagging may be a working
example of Vannevar Bush’s associative trails. He argued that associative [...]
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Study of tagging and health resources
Posted in Learn log, cataloguing, tagging on June 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tags on catalogues,rss feeds from the catalogue, interesting sites and podcasting trial!
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Tags and Catalogues
Following up your comment Bertha about tags and catalogues, I went to a conference on Web.2.0 in Sheffield on Friday and this site was shown by one of the speakers.
http://www.aadl.org/catalog
It is the Ann Arbor District library catalogue, which uses tags alongside its traditional catalogue. (It is quite well-known I think, as I remember [...]
