Tagging, Folksonomies, and Libraries with Ellyssa Kroski

EI Program Calendar Web Conference Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:00 pm ET One Hour Member: $75.00 Non-Member: $95.00 With the advent of social software and Web 2.0, users are adding metadata and using tags to organize their own digital collections, categorize the content of others and build bottom-up classification systems. This session will focus on the grassroots organizational scheme which has come to be known as a Folksonomy. What are the benefits of folksonomies as opposed to traditional classification schemes and what are the disadvantages? Where does the Folksonomy fit in the future of your library? How are libraries implementing tagging and Folksonomies today? Why do we need to be aware of this increasingly popular Web innovation? Who Should Participate? Anyone interested in New Web technologies, metadata, taxonomies, or cataloging. No specific prior technical knowledge is necessary beyond a familiarity with how to navigate the Web. The Key Benefits For Participants: Participants will learn about this new alternate form of classification which is being utilized on the Web today by social sites such as del.ico.us, Flickr, LibraryThing, blogs, and more. They will gain an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of tagging and folksonomies as well as their potential and practical uses in libraries. Key Topics to be Explored: The social tagging landscape The advantages and disadvantages of Folksonomies How tagging is being used by libraries today New advances in tagging Ellyssa Kroski Ellyssa Kroski is a Reference Librarian for Columbia University as well as an independent Information Consultant and national conference speaker. She has been working with Information and Internet technologies for over 10 years and specializes in Web 2.0 technology. She is finishing up her book Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals for Neal-Schuman Publishers and has just become adjunct faculty for Long Island University's LIS program. She holds an MLIS from Long Island University and writes a successful blog called InfoTangle. Developed for the Education Institute by Darlene Fichter’s Northern Lights Internet Solutions, Inc. in Saskatchewan