Re: Book tagging: Amazon and LibraryThing

From: Mike Taylor <mike_at_nyob>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:33:46 +0000
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Deborah Kaplan writes:
 > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Tim Spalding wrote:
 > This is actually a limitation in the current concept of social
 > tagging, to me. On LibraryThing, for example, I want to tag my
 > books in a way that will be useful to the larger social tagging
 > pool: "fiction", perhaps, or "cyberpunk". But I also want to tag
 > them in ways which will be useful to me: "gift from mum", "on the
 > shelf in the dining room", "chewed on by a cat".

I don't think the primary distinction here is between public and
private tags: it's between tagging the Work and the Item (in FRBR
terms).  It's not the case that _Pride and Prejudice_ is on the shelf
in the dining room; but _my copy_ of P&P is.

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