i'm curious if anyone else has experienced what i experienced this morning. as i was using the sidebar feature of the de.lic.ious extension for firefox i sensed that some of my bookmarks weren't coming up as search results. but i knew that they were there.
it didn't take long before i determined the problem. in my listing of web 2.0 titles, some were tagged with "web2.0", others tagged "web-2.0", yet others tagged "web_2.0", and even a few were tagged "web20". links to content on informal learning was tagged either "informal-learning", "informal_learning", or "informallearning." and it wasn't just inconsistent filling in of spaces. did i tag the content i was looking for as "workplace learning" or "organizational learning"? or was it "thebigquestion" or "tbq"? "learningcircuitsblog" or "lcb"?
i spent hours this morning combining and deleting tags in my de.lic.ious account. clearly my folksonomy is getting in the way of my efficient access of my de.lic.ious links. of course, de.lic.ious could offer a tag joining feature - mysyndicaat does this very nicely. the renaming and deleting tools for editing your tags in de.lic.ious are quite simple to use and do help prune my burgeoning tags. but even if they provide the solution, the problem still lies in my brain's ability to remember what tags i'm using.
besides memory, there is also the issue of the influence of the other de.lic.ious users. what if i tag all my content web-2.0, but everyone else uses web_2.0. my contributions will never be seen! so i incorporate the de.lic.ious community's favorite tags in my folksonomy. then my friends send me links with tags that fit with their conception of the world. but i don't have time to change them, so i just add web2.0 and web20 to my cloud.
wait, i'm right back where i started! i'm curious. does anyone else have problems managing their folksonomy? or should i start attending a 12-step program for tagaholics?
Tags: folksonomies, tags, delicious, social-bookmarking
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You're not alone. I have noticed that problem as well. I try to maintain an established tag list in my mind. When I tag a website for my del.icio.us account I try to either type in my tags manually or pick them out of del.icio.us' recommended list.
Unfortunately, if I'm in a hurry (which seems to happen often) I'm not as careful and about once every six months I have to prune my "tags."
Posted by: Dennis Coxe | May 22, 2007 at 10:33 AM
Maybe you have discovered a feature of folksonomies that is both a blessing and a curse when compared with controlled-vocabulary indexing systems. While del.icio.us does help you when tagging by popping up tags with similar initial letters you can select from, the tag management, recombination, and mapping features are pretty meager ("bundling" doesn't count). I think this situation might come under the heading "You get what you buy."
Posted by: Dennis D. McDonald in Alexandria, Virginia USA | June 05, 2007 at 07:27 AM
Dennis: While I agree with what you are saying in principle, I think the "you get what you buy" statement is a non-starter in the web 2.0 world. with the functionality that firefox, google, yahoo, open office, and scores of other free application provide as a matter of course, to imply that del.icio.us is somehow pushing the limits of what can be programmed for a free product just doesn't hold water.
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