I’m honored to let you know that our article about faceted tags and Facetag has been requested to be part of the June-July number of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
The Bulletin is a bi-monthly magazine packed with developments and issues affecting the field, pragmatic management reports, opinion, and news […]
As I promised, here it is our deck:
Comments welcome.
You can find the new paper, navigation videos and other papers at Facetag.org. The new completely recoded ajaxy and web2.0ish application will be made available in the coming weeks.
I’ve talked before about LibraryThing as one of the best examples of advanced use of tagging tecniques.
LibraryThing (11M of books) lets users catalogue and tag books. Subject headings are shown side by side with people assigned tags. You can browse using a top down approach or fly horizontally leveraging tags. A bonus is the possibility […]
At the end, Italy is catching up with the Web 2.0 revolution.
In the last few weeks I was interviewed and asked for advices for some of the major italian newspapers. I was also invited to participate to a number of public meetings and roundtables both on the folksonomies and web 2.0 topic.
Barcamps are now spreading […]
I’m proud of being among the bold knights that will compose the committee of the wonderful Tagging Workshop part of the WWW2007 this year in Banff, Canada.
The WWW2007 is the “annual gathering place of the international community to discuss and debate the future evolution of the Web” currently at its 16th edition.
The Tagging Workshop at […]
Analysts (but also experts) make their money giving predictions, insights, forecasts.
Gartner, for example, yearly publishes a Hype Cycle for Emergent Technologies and a Hype cycle for Web Applications. I sincerely like this work, because it can help you to build a bigger picture about all the new things that come around during the year […]
As I wrote in my preliminary post about FaceTag, this project is actually quite unique in its kind.
I think about it as a sort of bridge between emergent and traditional classification tools. A mixed sauce that aims to smoothen both the limits of controlled vocabularies and of plain folksonomies.
The feedback that we got at […]
2007 seems to be an extraordinary year for the education on social tagging and web 2.0 applications more generally.
Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science will probably be among the richest conferences and will be held October 18-25, in (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) as a part of the ASIS&T Annual Meeting.
The deep change that is […]
After two years and a half, this is my last day in Accenture. Among my competencies here, defining the strategy and evangelizing about customer experience and its value for our clients with consulting and operational roles on a number of web related projects (you know gathering requirements, working on the information architecture and interaction design, […]
Today, Vittorio Loreto (PIL Group, Physics Department of La Sapienza University) invited me to partecipate to the kick-off meeting of an innovative research project funded by the European Commission in the framework of the FET proactive initiative Simulating Emergent Properties in Complex Systems.
The TAGora project aims to leverage online social systems to […]
Lately, every and each day, a new folksonomical web 2.0 startup seems to born. Going a step further and trying to catch their mission, their added value, the innovation they introduce very often you will find nothing new!
As if Web 2.0 was a goal in itself: creating a new service inspired to the widespread new […]
David Sifry gives us an update on the blogosphere status seen from Technorati.com:
Over 35.3 37.3 Million blogs
The blogosphere is doubling every 6 months
Its size is 60 times bigger than 3 years ago
A new weblog every second
19.4 million bloggers (55%) still active after 3 months
As you may expect, the blogosphere is still growing at an incredible […]
Paul Heymann and Hector Garcia-Molina (Department of Computer Science, Stanford University) have recently published the paper Collaborative Creation of Communal Hierarchical Taxonomies in Social Tagging Systems.
Paul is a PhD student doing research on how to recreate hierarchical taxonomies from flat tag data, moving from the idea that this kind of structure is already implicitly (on […]
Lately I’m really focused on the evolution of tagging. To find the new way you have to know the old path.. so I’m frequently coming back to faceted classification and Ranganathan’s ideas.
To add a structure on tags, a few different approaches seem to be viable. Clustering is among the most famous now.
On this topic, Marti […]
Web 2.0 Introduction
When the dot com bubble burst in the fall of 2001, the Web as we knew it went through a dramatic change. The idealistic, overenthusiastic and highly dynamic vision of the Internet pioneers suddenly imploded, leaving room for a period of rational pragmatism, refinement and reflection in which costs and value maximization gained […]
I’m not sure that all tagging problems are limited to visualization issues in current tag clouds. My opinion is that we lack that fundamental structure that has been lost reaching a flat set of keywords. Yes, this approach allowed that wild tagging adoption, but now it’s time to reintroduce a little of structure.
Anyway a few […]
I’m again and again thinking about how tagging, as we know it now, is not working. It simply cannot scale and it cannot be really applied to contexts in which finding or keeping things found is fundamental.
A post that I read casually from Volkan Ozcelik impressed me a lot:
In need of organizing my tags
I have […]
Since a few people asked me about that, here is the link to the ppt deck from the italian IA Summit.
I gave a talk about the evolution of the social tagging introducing my ideas about the future of folksonomies:
Faceted Tagging (Mefeedia) Editors create mutually exclusive facets and users assign tags to facets
Advanced Navigation Iterative […]
After having managed the first Italian IA Summit, I’m preparing to head to Vancouver for the IA Summit 2006. I will be there from March, 22th to March, 28th (back in Italy the day after).
I will have a free day and I will follow Peter Morville’s Information Architecture & Findability.
For the real conference, I […]
With the desire of continuing the discussion about the evolution of tagging, I’m going to post a few links about comments on my previous Folksonomies 2.0 - The chaotic order:
Wikisomies - David Weinberg
Folksonomies 2.0 - M@moo
Faceted Tags - Beyond Folksonomies
Folksonomy 2.0 - kurai
Are folksonomies scalable? - Tara Hunt
I invite you to give […]
I have a tags related idea that periodically comes back to my mind. Yesterday I had a chat with Peter Van Dijck about it.
Folksonomies are a very widespread concept today and also a few big magazines have understood their revolutionary approach and value.
What I’m asking to myself is: “Since a year ago, which evolution […]
I’d like to link a curious (at least for me) folksonomy review “Folksonomies fascinate me” by a librarian perspective. Some of the points:
Folksonomies fascinate me, in no small part because they are a direct response to a failing of our profession which has irritated me since library school days..
When embarking on a piece of analysis, […]
