The document discusses trends and future directions for tagging, including: 1. Tags will become more structured with both manual and automatic ("automanual") approaches to folksonomies. 2. Leveraging communities by combining similar tags and reducing noise will make tags more useful for finding and organizing information. 3. Tags can spark innovation by including additional metadata like locations, dates, and relationships to replicate categories and spark new applications.

1. Tagging: What’s Next?
Voices That Matter
June 12, 2008
Nashville, TN

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User Experience Consultant
Edmonton, Canada
Speaker
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Author

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12. Volume
Time

14. Volume
Time
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18. User Resource
Tags

19. What’s Next?

20. Trends
• More Structure
• Automanual Folksonomies
• Leveraging Communities
• Sparking Innovation

21. More Structure

22. Structure

24. Sticky
Not Sticky

26. User Resource
Resource
Tags

27. Artist Artist
CD CD CD
Metadata from songs can be aggregated
to describe albums and artists.
http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/09/how_to_build_on_bubbleup_folksonomies/

32. Leveraging
Communities

37. “humor” vs “humour”
American Spelling British Spelling
Jon Stewart Douglas Adams
David Sedaris Terry Pratchett
The Onion P.G. Wodehouse
Douglas Adams Bill Bryson

38. Automanual
Folksonomies

46. Tim Spalding

47. Combine Tags
Reduce noise & collapse
obvious synonyms
Tag Mash
Arbitrary tag combinations
& weighting
Tagsonomies
Use tag combinations to Evergreen
replicate categories
Categories

48. “I notice a hesitance toward hard-coded
semantics and manual work—people think
these things won’t scale. I learned to mix it up...
a small amount semantics on top of minimal
structure can work wonders.”
Peter Van Dijck

49. Sparking
Innovation

50. Any Text
String
Write Read

52. geotagged Marker Tag
geo:lat=54.1423
geo:long=-113.1232 } Machine Tags
namespace : key = value
clothing:size=”large”
blog:via=”http://atomiq.org”
upcoming:event=266399

55. Flickr Innovation
Flickr Users Useful Tools
Dan Catt Job at Flickr
Developers New API Methods

58. Trends
• More Structure
• Automanual Folksonomies
• Leveraging Communities
• Sparking Innovation

59. “When the hype wears down... I think tagging
will have altered the information landscape in
a fundamental way”
Jon Udell

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