I just received my copy of the new _Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the
Social Web_ (New Riders), a short, detailed book about tagging in all its
dimensions. Of course, it's all about Del.icio.us, Flickr and so forth, but
I wanted to relate my delight at how it starts.
It starts with Danbury, CT's implementation of LibraryThing for Libraries.
That's cool for us, of course, but isn't it great that a book about a hip
new technology doesn't start at a social network or a photo sharing site,
but at a library? The library isn't there for contrast with hip new things
going on outside it. The library *is* the hip example.
<pumps fist in air>
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"Walk into the public library in Danbury, Connecticut, and you'll find the
usual shelves stacked with books, organized into neat rows. Works of fiction
are grouped alphabetically by the author's last name. Nonfiction titles are
placed into their propper Dewey Decimal categories just like they are at
tens of thousands of other libraries in North America.
But visit the Danbury Library's online catalog, and you'll find something
rather unlike a typical library.
"A search for The Catcher in the Rye bring sup not just a call number but
also a list of related books and tags—keywords such as "adolescence,"
"angst," "coming of age," and "New York"—that describe J. D. Salinger's
classic novel ... Click the tag "angst," and you'll find a list of angsty
titles such as The Bell Jar, The Stranger, and The Virgin Suicides." ...
http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/01/tagging-people-powered-metadata-for.php
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Received on Sun Jan 27 2008 - 15:15:38 EST