Tagging

From our little ISKO UK research observatory...

Colleagues following research in social tagging (collaborative tagging), folksonomies) may be interested in the series of articles by Margaret Kipp deposited in the dLIST archive:

Kipp, Margaret E.I. (2007) @toread and Cool: Tagging for Time, Task and Emotion. In Proceedings 8th Information Architecture Summit, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. (2007) Tagging for Health Information Organisation and Retrieval.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. (2007) Tagging Practices on Research Oriented Social Bookmarking Sites. In Proceedings Canadian Association for Information Science, Montreal, Quebec.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. (2006) Complementary or Discrete Contexts in Online Indexing: A Comparison of User, Creator and Intermediary Keywords. In Proceedings Canadian Association for Information Science, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. (2006) Exploring the Context of User, Creator and Intermediary Tagging.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. (2006) Patterns in Tagging: An Analysis of Collaborative Classification Practices in Social Bookmarking Tools.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. and Campbell, D. Grant (2006) Patterns and Inconsistencies in Collaborative Tagging Systems: An Examination of Tagging Practices. In Proceedings American Society for Information Science and Technology, Austin, Texas.

Semantic Web Technologies

A new online newsletter has recently been launched entitled Semantic Report. Some extracts from the corresponding web site:

"Each month SemanticReport will bring you news, interviews, analysis, presentations, case studies, white papers, and anything you tell us you are interested in receiving with regard to the broad range of technology falling under the domain of semantic technology."

"Our mission is to bring together information that helps focus on the business aspects of semantic technologies and applications. Simply stated, that means we are concerned about presenting the business application of the technology rather than the more academic information."

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications

DC-2007: International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications “Application Profiles and their Application in Practice” took place from 27 to 31 August 2007 in Singapore.
A report on the conference by Ann Apps is available here.

DCMI has just published the online version of the DC-2007 proceedings.



Papers

• Parallel writing in East Asian languages and its representation in metadata in light of the DCMI Abstract Model (pp. 1-9) by Akira Miyazawa



• Annotation Profiles: Configuring Forms to Edit RDF (pp. 10-21) by Matthias Palmér, Fredrik Enoksson, Mikael Nilsson, Ambjörn Naeve
  
  
• Theory and Practice of Application Profile Development (pp. 43-52) by Jon Mason, Helen Galatis
  
  
• Application Profiles: Exposing and Enforcing Metadata Quality (pp. 52-62) by Diane Ileana Hillmann, Jon Phipps



• Using an Application Profile Based Service Registry (pp. 63-73) by Ann Apps



• Identifying the Identifiers (pp. 74-84) by Douglas Campbell



• Using Metadata Schema Registry as a Core Function to Enhance Usability and Reusability of Metadata Schemas (pp. 85-95) by Mitsuharu Nagamori, Shigeo Sugimoto



• Virtual Archival Exhibition System: An Authoring Tool for Developing Web-based Virtual Exhibitions (pp. 96-105) by Ruan Yang, Chennupati K. Ramaiah, Schubert Foo



• Integrating Dublin Core Metadata for Cultural Heritage Collections Using Ontologies (pp. 128-139) by Constantia Kakali, Irene Lourdi, Thomais Stasinopoulou, Lina Bountouri, Christos Papatheodorou, Martin Doerr, Manolis Gergatsoulis



• Can a System Make Novice Users Experts? Important Factors for Automatic Metadata Generation Systems (pp. 140-150) by Sueyeon Syn, Michael B. Spring

Project Reports

• SCROL Application Profile (pp. 22-29) by Steven Wan Wu, Barbara Reed, Paul Loke



• The DCMI Tools Application Profile (pp. 30-34) by Thomas Severiens, Jane Greenberg


The DRIADE Project: Phased Application Profile Development in Support of Open Science (pp. 35-42) by Jane Greenberg, Sarah Carrier, Jed Dube


• Education.au and Metadata for Events (pp. 106-115) by Pru Mitchell



• Integrating Dublin Core and Learning Object Metadata for Describing Learning Objects for Enhanced Reusability (pp. 116-122) by Abdul Halim Abdul, Abdus Sattar Chaudhy, Christopher S.G. Khoo



• Audience-Centric Taxonomy: Using taxonomies to Support Heterogeneous User Communities (pp. 123-127) by Dave Clarke, Pei Jiun Tan
  

Keywords & the e-Government Metadata Standard

Rumour has it that the use of the Subject element of the e-GMS for keywords is to be deprecated. The e-GMS v. 2 supported the use of keywords to extend the specificity of the pretty unspecific GCL in use at the time. The e-GMS v3.0 (29 April 2004) still referenced the GCL but appeared to restrict keywords to a controlled set, saying:

"These should be taken from a controlled vocabulary or list."

However, that policy seems to have been changed in the e-GMS v3.1 (29/8/2006) which says:

"Uncontrolled values (e.g. keywords from an uncontrolled list) can also be used if they will make it easier for people to find the resource."

No wonder there's confusion! Does anyone know whether there is any truth in the rumour?

Invasion of the Knowledge Organizers

London, England, 22 August 2007.

The authorities in London have issued a warning that the city is likely to be hit by several swarms of Knowledge Organizers next month. The first swarm will make landfall on 4 September, when the UK Chapter of ISKO hold their half-day seminar Tools for knowledge organization today.

Disorganized knowledge workers are advised to take extra care on 12 September, when mixed swarms of knowledge managers and data managers are forecast to hit the Charing Cross area. First to arrive will be those attending the afternoon seminar of NetIKX - the Network for Information and Knowledge Exchange - at the DWP in John Adam St., where Stella Dextre Clarke will be speaking on Standardising the language of information and knowledge management – the Agony and the Ecstasy.

Following in the early evening of the 12th., another swarm is expected to descend upon the British Computer Society's premises in Southampton Street for a meeting entitled Information, data and metadata: why they need to be managed. The meeting marks the launch of Keith Gordon's new book Principles of Data Management: Facilitating Information Sharing.

After a brief respite, we are warned that a further swarm is due to hit the Covent Garden area on 17 September in the form of the BCS KIDMM (Knowledge, Information, Data and Metadata Management) day conference KIDMM: MetaKnowledge Mash-up 2007. Since this gathering comprises a number of different species which do not normally swarm together, visitors to the area are advised to be on their guard against unpredictable behaviour.

So, make sure you get these in your diary:

04 September: Tools for knowledge organization today
12 September: Standardising the language of information and knowledge management – the Agony and the Ecstasy
12 September: Information, data and metadata: why they need to be managed
17 September: KIDMM: MetaKnowledge Mash-up 2007

New Developments in Faceted Search

Earley & Associates are running another TaxoCop Call on August 29 entitled New Developments in Faceted Search. Details are available on the Earley web site.

Invitation to ISKO UK Seminar "Tools for knowledge organization today"

ISKO UK invites you to a half-day seminar "Tools for knowledge organization today" to be held on 4th September 2007, in London.

This afternoon event focuses on current developments in knowledge organization systems and the work of groups in the knowledge organization field (NKOS and KIDMM). The programme will include presentations on new standards for structured vocabularies (BS 8723), and an automatic metadata generation project.

Attendance is free. To book your place email info[@t]iskouk.org

More information on programme and venue are on the seminar's webpage.

We are looking forward to seeing you at this event.