Context Entities of Flickr Tags: Classes of Information Captured by Social Tagging
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- February 28, 2019
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Richey, Thomas S.
- Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
- Abstract
- This study explores the content entities, or classes of information, captured by tags assigned to images posted to Flickr's The Commons site. Seven institutions participating in The Commons were examined: The New York Public Library, The Washington, D.C. Public Library, The University of Washington, Michigan State University, Cornell University, The Field Museum, and the George Eastman House. Tables that collected tags from these institutions and their subsequently assigned context entities revealed the kind of information expressed by users of Flickr's social tagging site. Through a review of the literature and by examining data from Web traffic sites, it is shown that tagging is a popular form of describing images and that professionals across information fields generally accept it as a supplement to access points created by controlled vocabularies. From an analysis of Flickr tags, it is shown that objects and places are the most common contextual entities captured by user-generated tags. By implication, it is suggested what gaps in contextual entities professionals should fill for users, and vice-versa. This paper concludes with suggested improvements for the study and areas where social tagging will continue to engage and empower users of image sites and other services compatible with tagging functionality.
- Date of publication
- April 2011
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- In Copyright
- Advisor
- Lee, Christopher
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- 44
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- abb1808a-3405-4d7b-866b-f35807dc08b2
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- Open access
- Date uploaded
- March 6, 2013
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