I trolled around del.icio.us for a while exploring the tags. I've come across tagging before, especially when I've been searching for new authors to read.
The uses are pretty obvious: ease of searching and a community (of sorts) to draw information from. However (and there's always an however) I've had trouble before when it comes to the multiplicity of tags that are used. What one person uses as a tag is not always going to be the obvious choice that someone else will search by.
Does empowering people to use tags really make it easier to search?
I'm sure that we as library workers shake in our catalogues at the thought of subject headings and Dewey classifications being assigned by our clients. Or even by any of the staff, when it comes to that.
Or pehaps I'm just too 20th century about the whole thing. :>
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Tagging is certainly a "cataloguers nightmare" It remains to be seen how effective tagging is as these databases get bigger and more irrelevent tags are added ?
Lynette
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