Re: Book tagging: Amazon and LibraryThing

From: HAZEL Margaret E <margaret.e.hazel_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:21:18 -0800
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
"reminds me of ex" doesn't apply to item, however.

I don't think I'd force people to create a distinction between public
and private tags, but it would be kind and a good privacy/intellectual
freedom (we're librarians, remember?) tool to offer the option to have
private tags.

-Margaret


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Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Book tagging: Amazon and LibraryThing

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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