EnTag: Enhancing social tagging for discovery

Koraljka Golub; Catherine Jones; Brian Matthews; Jim Moon; Douglas Tudhope; Marianne Lykke Nielsen

doi:10.1145/1555400.1555427

EnTag: Enhancing social tagging for discovery

Koraljka Golub^*
, Catherine Jones
, Brian Matthews
, Jim Moon
, Douglas Tudhope
, Marianne Lykke Nielsen

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The EnTag (Enhanced Tagging for Discovery) project investigated the effect on indexing and retrieval when using only social tagging versus when using social tagging in combination with suggestions from a controlled vocabulary. Two different contexts were explored: tagging by readers of a digital collection and tagging by authors in an institutional repository; also two different controlled vocabularies were examined, Dewey Decimal Classification and ACM Computing Classification Scheme. For each context a separate demonstrator was developed and a user study conducted. The results showed the importance of controlled vocabulary suggestions for both indexing and retrieval: to help produce ideas of tags to use, to make it easier to find focus for the tagging, as well as to ensure consistency and increase the number of access points in retrieval. The value and usefulness of the suggestions proved to be dependent on the quality of the suggestions, both in terms of conceptual relevance to the user and in appropriateness of the terminology. The participants themselves could also see the advantages of controlled vocabulary terms for retrieval if the terms used were from an authoritative source.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	JCDL'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Number of pages	10
Publication date	2009
Pages	163-172
ISBN (Print)	9781605586977
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1555400.1555427
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes
Event	2009 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL'09 - Austin, TX, United States Duration: 15 Jun 2009 → 19 Jun 2009

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Conference	2009 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL'09
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin, TX
Period	15/06/2009 → 19/06/2009
Sponsor	ACM SIGWEB, ACM SIGIR, IEEE CS

Series	Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
ISSN	1552-5996

Keywords

ACM computing classification scheme
Controlled vocabularies
Dewey decimal classification
Digital collection
Folksonomies
Institutional repository
Intute
Retrieval
Social tagging
Subject indexing

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Golub, K, Jones, C, Matthews, B, Moon, J, Tudhope, D & Nielsen, ML 2009, EnTag: Enhancing social tagging for discovery. in JCDL'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 163-172, 2009 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL'09, Austin, TX, United States, 15/06/2009. https://doi.org/10.1145/1555400.1555427

EnTag: Enhancing social tagging for discovery. / Golub, Koraljka; Jones, Catherine; Matthews, Brian et al.
JCDL'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. 2009. p. 163-172 (Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries).

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