1. “To confer, converse, and otherwise hobnob with my brother wizards”: SLIC, SLAINTE and Web 2.0 Celia Jenkins & Gillian Hanlon, SLIC

2. Why Web 2.0? Improving SLAINTE. Focusing on needs of community. - Different ways of delivering content - Encourages communication, participation & collaboration - Enhances our resources

6. Tagging: Key features User generated keywords No controlled vocabulary Non-hierarchical Folksonomy No limit to number of tags Supporting fields

7. The great tagging debate: part I Enables “pseudo-faceted classification” (Speller, 2007) Creates a bottom-up consensus view (Shirky, 2005) Adaptable to changing vocabularies (Mathes, 2004) Facilitates serendipitous browsing (Mathes, 2004) Combination approach (Pattern, 2007) Evidence of tag consensus being reached (Golder & Huberman, 2005)

8. The great tagging debate: part II Synonyms and homonyms (Mathes, 2004) Ambiguity of uncontrolled vocabulary (Mathes, 2004) Specificity and the level of expertise (Golder & Huberman, 2005) Longevity of tags (Smith, 2005) Spaces and multiple words (Mathes, 2004) Personal versus social (Mathes, 2004)

9. Tag chaos

10. The source

11. Tagging: flickr libraries group

12. Tagging: Library of Congress approach Flickr pilot commenced Jun 2007 – live Jan 2008 Two LoC photo collections added Dublin Core records included Tags applied by users – except “Library of Congress” tag LoC flickr record

13. A delicate balance Scalability - high cost of applying LoC approach Cognitive issues - unlikely that users will tag to standards Perception shift – not tagging versus cataloguing

14. Scottish libraries tag guidelines

15. The finished product: flickr

16. The finished product: delicious

17. Future developments Continuous development of tagging guidelines Building on existing content Work in progress: pod/webcasting, Facebook, live chat and surveys Overcoming legal barriers Integration with SLAINTE

18. Contact details References on del.icio.us Presentation on slideshare All available through pageflakes: http://www.pageflakes.com/scottishlibraries email: Celia Jenkins slic4@slainte.org.ukslic4@slainte.org.uk Gillian Hanlon slic1@slainte.org.ukslic1@slainte.org.uk