1. Structure, Subjectivity, and Power: The Provisional Space of Libraries within the Social Tagging Movement Melissa Higgins, University of Denver

2. Virtual Symposium on Information & Technology in the Arts & Humanities PRESENTATION – MELISSA HIGGINS Structure, subjectivity, and power: The provisional space of libraries within the social tagging movement SPONSORED BY ASIS&T SIG-AH & SIG-VIS HOSTED BY SJSU ASIS&T

3. Structure, Subjectivity, and Power: The Provisional Space of Libraries within the Social Tagging Movement Melissa Higgins, University of Denver

4. Social Tagging in Libraries Reasons libraries might adopt social tagging:  Involving users in the process of description  Creating more comprehensive descriptions  Can often reflect actual user search strategies better  Concern for “user experience”  Often very useful in the context of Digital Collections However, there are some problems with social tagging:  Tags are not always relevant  Tags can often be redundant  Or, they can be altogether incorrect

5. My Research Question FlickrThe National Library of Ireland Two views of Davy Byrnes’ Pub in Dublin, Ireland

6. Flickr: Martello Tower at Sandycove Title of photograph in Flickr: “Joyce’s Martello Tower”

7. NLI: Martello Tower at Sandycove

8. FlickrThe National Library of Ireland Structure of Description Creates Different Methods of Searching

9. The National Library of Ireland on the Commons: Trinity College Gate

10. Michel de Certeau: The Practice of Everyday Life (1984) Strategies Producers Has “proper” place (not restricted by time) Work according to laws, rules, conventions Designer Tactics Consumers (but not passive) Appropriation as a new kind of production Without defined place Opportunistic User

11. The Liminal Space of Libraries Tactics of Individuals Strategies of Institutions

12. References Alemu, G., Stevens, B., & Ross, P. (2012). Towards a conceptual framework for user-driven semantic metadata interoperability in digital libraries: A social constructivist approach. New Library World, 113(112), 38-54. doi: 10.1108103074801211199031. De Certeau, M. (1984). The Practice of Everyday Life. Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. Ding, Y., Jacob, E. K., Zhang, Z., Foo, S., Yan, E., George, N. L., & Guo, L. (2009). Perspectives on social tagging. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(12), 2388-2401. doi: 10.1002/asi.21190. Hammond, T., Hannay,T., Lund, B., and Scott, J. (2005). Social bookmarking tools (l): A general review. D-lib Magazine, 11(4). Schlesselman-Tarango, G. (2013). Searchable signatures: context and the struggle for recognition. Information Technology and Libraries, 32 (3), 5-19.

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