This presentation introduces ‘facets’ as a means of managing large collections of tags and revealing semantic relationships. (I understand facets as ‘bundles‘ within del.icio.us. Also, some neat interface design showing how facets can be used to drill down into a search query through tags.
Integrating Bottom-up and Top-down Classification in a Social Tagging System by Emanuele, Andrea Resmini, Luca Rosati
The Evolution of Collaborative Tagging
Web-based collaborative systems [are] for:
- building a shared database of items
- a flat metadata vocabulary
- metadata driven queries
- monitoring change in areas of interest
- discovering emergences or trends
Properties of Folksonomies
Advantages:
- Trade-off between simplicity and precision
- Match the user’s real needs and language
- Inclusive (nothing is left out)
- Help discovery of information and serendipity
- May be a forced move (the environment makes the difference)
- Better than nothing (when traditional classification is not viable)
Disadvantages
- Language issues
- User Experience issues
– Interface Design
