27 September 2008

Tagging

Organizing digital material your own way instead of relying on pre-existing formats. Its importance in IL is seen as it makes it easy to organise information for all users of a site, encourages sharing and collaboration It is a personal phenomenon—the primary goal is to assist an individual with resource management tasks. examples are:
Del.icio.us, a site for tagging Web bookmarks. Known as the biggest collection of bookmarks. http://delicious. COM/
Flickr, a site for sharing and tagging photographs.
Technorati is a popular site for exploring creator-tagged blog entries (among a few other things).
LibraryThing is an application of tagging to personal book collections. It can pull bibliographic information from the Library of Congress or amazon.com, saving users the time of entering this information manually.
Connotea is a tagging site that is meant for researchers and clinicians to enable them keep links articles and websites used. A way for scientists to organize scholarly reference lists.
http://techessence.info/tagging

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