[TagCommons-WG] [Fwd: Use Cases for Sharing Tag Data]

[Harry Halpin]

This link [1] forwarded by my friend Paolo is great:
http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2007/02/when-tags-works-and-when-they-dont.php


Is Tim Spalding on this list? If not, Tom - could you invite him? He
seems very interested in the same sort of things, including a "tag
consoritum"...

          harry

Paolo Mangiafico wrote:
>
> Date:    Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:41:33 -0500
> From:    Tim Spalding <tim at LIBRARYTHING.COM>
> Subject: Book tagging: Amazon and LibraryThing
>
> I just wrote up the first really big examination of book tagging on
> the two largest book-taggers, Amazon and LibraryThing. I think it
> might be interesting here.
>
> http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2007/02/when-tags-works-and-when-they-dont.php
>
>
> I conclude that LibraryThing has ten times as many book tags as
> Amazon, and speculate about what this means in light of a much wider
> disparity in traffic. I originally wrote it to include PennTags, but
> it got out of hand and it didn't seem fair to compare them. But my
> comments about how "numbers matter" in tagging is, I think, pretty
> important for the future of efforts like PennTags, Blyberg's SOPAC,
> the Swedish library and others. Tags only work in big numbers. (That's
> why LibraryThing will be coming out with a "tag consortium" in the
> near future.)
>
> Tim


-- 
		-harry

Harry Halpin,  University of Edinburgh 
http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin 6B522426