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Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web Best Price

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Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web Price

Tagging: People powered Metadata for the Social Web Best Price
I have worked on a variety of applications and have participated in conferences where it is clear we all have an incredible amount of data to manage.
It seems tagging is the new means of organizing your data, but it is also equally clear to most of us that this feels very unstructured.

This book is sure to be a seminal book, discussing the early years of tagging. It deals with the basics:
a. What it is
b. Why we want to do it
c. Some various methods and structures for tagging and how we would use it.
d. Examples of the components of tagging, why and where to use them
e. Some code nuts and bolts of how to approach tagging.

Finally there are some real life examples
1. Social bookmarking
2. Media sharing
3. Personal information management.

This book is easy to read and quickly gets you up to speed on some of the issues associated with tagging.

Essentially it says, you need to decide what you want to do, before deciding on the type of tagging you would use.

It also clearly leaves the reader realizing this is just the beginning..

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Overview

Tagging is fast becoming one of the primary ways people organize and manage digital information. Tagging complements traditional organizational tools like folders and search on users desktops as well as on the web. These developments mean that tagging has broad implications for information management, information architecture and interface design. And its reach extends beyond these technical domains to our culture at large. We can imagine, for example, the scrapbookers of the future curating their digital photos, emails, ticket stubs and other mementos with tags. This book explains the value of tagging, explores why people tag, how tagging works and when it can be used to improve the user experience. It exposes tagging’s superficial simplicity to reveal interesting issues related to usability, information architecture, online community and collective intelligence.

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Customer Reviews

clear - Verena Rossi - italy
It’s very clear and simply written, and at the same time complete and exhaustive. Good purchase.

The new metadata science - Jose Luis Codina Bonilla - Barcelona, Spain
I think that this book creates a new specialization in the science of metadata and controlled vocabularies: tagging. The book is very well wrote and contains very well illustrations and diagrams. But the most important of all is that this book explains and illustrates the emerging of a new information science discipline: tagging, or, as the author says “people-powered metadata”.
Tagging helps create community - Paul A. Baker - Madison, Wis., US
Participating in a community, sharing our interests, and contributing to the collective good are all fundamentally human motivations, Smith says, and social tagging systems tap into these.

If you use the Web a lot, the stream of information you navigate sometimes seems like a tsunami. Besides emails and RSS feeds, your digital stream can include social networking sites, photos from your friends, links from Del.icio.us, and Twitter tweets.

Tagging these online resources can help you make sense of your stream. If you use tags now, this book will show you ways to juice your game, and will likely point you to new resources. If you don’t use tags, this book explains how tagging can help, and how to get started.

And if you’re a web architect, Gene Smith walks you through the things you should consider when designing tagging system.

Product Information : Nov 29, 2009 12:00:10

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