Sharing Vocabularies: Tag Usage in CiteULike

Abstract

CiteULike is a collaborative tagging web site which lets users enter academic references into a database and describe these references using tags (categorizations of their own choosing). We looked at the tagging behavior of people who were describing four frequently entered references. We found that while people tend to agree on a few select tags, people also tend to use many variants of these tags. This lack of consensus means that the collaborative aspect of tagging is not as strong as may have been suggested in the past.

Contributors

Sylvie Noël

Russell Beale

Conference

Publication date: September 2008

Publication date (Print): September 2008

Pages: 71-74

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Communications Research Centre

3701, Carling Ave

Ottawa, ON, Canada

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School of Computer Science

University of Birmingham

Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK

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Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2008.36

Copyright statement: © Sylvie Noël et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. People and Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

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Conference name: People and Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 22

Conference location: Conference Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Conference date: 1 - 5 September 2008

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Computers XXII Culture, Creativity, Interaction

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing