Links to discussion pieces
What are we talking about - is it really SocialTagging ?
Interestingly, some others have picked up the issue or had already said something. See:
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Pete Johnston, 'The "social" in social tagging', eFoundations - metadata, middleware, e-learning http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2006/11/the_social_in_s.html
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Scott Wilson's comments at http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/scott/blogview?entry=20061117121859
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notes from a presentation on tagging by Traugott Koch at http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/pres/tagging-BBK0717.html A partly equivalent running text is available as section 3.4 Social tagging and folksonomies in:
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Tudhope, D., Koch, T. and Heery, R. (2006). Terminology Services and Technology. JISC state of the art review. 96pp. HTML: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/terminology/JISC-review2006.html | PDF version at JISC: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/capital/terminology_services_and_technology_review_sep_06.pdf.
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some notes about OCLC activities in the field at http://www.joelamantia.com/blog/archives/cat_social_bookmarking.html
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main page and papers from 'Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization' workshop at WWW2007 at http://www2007.org/workshop-W9.php
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summary notes from 'Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization' at WWW2007 at http://www2007.redlog.net/
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a blog reporting on a seminar at Harvard University at http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/harvard_forum_on_social_taggin.html
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"Social Bookmarking Tools (I) A General Review" by Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, and Joanna Scott at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html
Are there more worth considering?