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Tagging and Searching: Search Retrieval Effectiveness of Folkonsomies on the World Wide Web

To complete my MS in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management at Kent State I did some research on folksonomies and how the can support information retrieval. I compared social bookmarking systems with search engines and directories. I’m hoping to see the results published in an academic journal. In the mean time, you can see a pre-publication copy of my results:

Tagging and searching [pdf, 989K]

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2 Responses to “Tagging and Searching: Search Retrieval Effectiveness of Folkonsomies on the World Wide Web”

JasonMorrison.net » Blog Archive » Scientific proof that Reddit should add a tagging system Says:
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:15 am
[...] I got an email the other day letting me know that my article, Tagging and Searching: Search Retrieval Effectiveness of Folkonsomies on the World Wide Web, is being published in the July 2008 issue of Information Processing and Management (here’s [...]
JasonMorrison.net » Update to Altocumulus Wordpress Tagging Plugin - version 0.2 Says:
August 6th, 2008 at 1:25 am
[...] if you have any ideas you’d like to see implemented, too - I am all about implementing and studying folksonomies. The more folks who are interested, the more likely I am to add features. [...]