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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