Awesome, thanks for the clarification/corrections and slides, Steve! 2008/10/7 Steve Toub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Dan Scott wrote: > >> Your assertions about student behaviour conflict with the findings >> presented at Access 2008 just last week by both Ken Varnum (who >> presented on MTagger results at University of Michigan) and Steve Toub >> (who presented research results on social behaviour at Queen's >> University in conjunction with the work Bibliocommons is doing). Both >> presentations showed the results of research that tagging in an >> academic library context is something that appears to be valued by >> librarians, but not particularly (or at all) by library users. > > My take: if you build a tagging service with the absence of understanding > motivations for tagging, use of that service will probably be low. > > Its still early days for understanding tagging in the catalog, too early to > know for sure if this is valued by library users. Our preliminary research > indicated most academic users we interviewed would likely contribute at > least one or two data elements if they saw the value in doing so. > > > >> Steve's presentation showed that students didn't get "tagging" in a >> library catalog, even though they recognized the feature in Facebook. >> Completely different contexts. > > Yep. Assigning a persons name to a portion of a photo in Facebook seems > completely, uh, lobotomized, from assigning descriptive text to a web page. > >> Apologies to the speakers for horribly simplifying the presentations >> (hopefully they will be made available somewhere), but my take-away >> was that implementing tagging in the Evergreen catalog interface >> should be a low priority. > > I've posted my presentation on SlideShare: > http://ugc-academic.notlong.com > > There's a slide toward the back on strategies for ensuring high quality > contributions. > > There was a breakout group at Access that discussed the idea of sharing > user-generated content across systems. I think the first step was to do an > inventory of existing data elements with an eye toward how they might map to > existing schema (e.g., hReview [1]),xFolk [2], DiSo [3], APML [4]); Roy > Tennant and I added this metadata inventory/mapping task to our "to do on a > rainy day" lists, but we'd would welcome others to help jump us start this. > > I don't know of any InSurge repositories other than the only SOPAC instance > in production: Darien Public Library. I'm still not clear on the actual > mechanism for syncing InSurge repositories but seems to require some kind of > manual setup. The discussion forum for InSurge is at: > http://www.thesocialopac.net/forum/22 > > > -- > Steve Toub > Product Manager, BiblioCommons > > [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview > [2] http://microformats.org/wiki/xfolk > [3] http://diso-project.org/wiki/Main_Page > [4] http://www.apml.org/ >
-- Dan Scott Laurentian University
