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Social Tagging: Implications from Studying User Behavior and Institutional Practice

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (TPDL 2017)

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This paper aims to describe users’ tagging behavior in catalogues and in Flickr. Six platforms of two institutions and one consortium are analyzed: the main catalogue Discovery and Flickr page of the National Archives of the United Kingdom, the main catalogue Explore, the catalogue Archives and Manuscripts and Flickr page of the British Library, and the consortial search engine of the pan-European eBooks on Demand Library Network. The results of the document and user data analysis point to differences between archival and library collections, between catalogues and Flickr, illustrate the impact of different authorization and procedural rules, and confirm previous studies as regards to the small size of the active user group. Based on the data analysis, we offer eight recommendations for social tagging in libraries and archives concerning the issues of interface functionality and management, data collection, reflection of tags and maintaining the community.

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  1. 1.

    https://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html .

  2. 2.

    http://explore.bl.uk .

  3. 3.

    http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk .

  4. 4.

    http://searcharchives.bl.uk .

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    https://search.books2ebooks.eu .

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    http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk .

  7. 7.

    http://www.bl.uk/help/how-to-get-a-reader-pass .

  8. 8.

    http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/docsupply/help/register/regularcustomers/index.html .

  9. 9.

    http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/tags/index/howtotag .

  10. 10.

    http://www.flickr.com/people/britishlibrary .

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    http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives .

  12. 12.

    http://help.yahoo.com/kb/flickr/tag-keywords-flickr-sln7455.html .

  13. 13.

    https://www.flickr.com/services/apps/about .

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The author is grateful to the British Library and the National Archives of UK for the data, Baseer Baheer for his help with Flickr API, and Prof. David Lamas and Dr. Marco Gui for their feedback to this paper.

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    Õnne Mets

  2. Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Jaagup Kippar

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  1. Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam , Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Library & Information Center, University of Patras , Patras, Greece

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  3. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki, Greece

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  4. Civil Engineering, University of Thrace , Kimmeria, Greece

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  5. Informatics, Ionian University , Kerkyra, Greece

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Mets, Õ., Kippar, J. (2017). Social Tagging: Implications from Studying User Behavior and Institutional Practice. In: Kamps, J., Tsakonas, G., Manolopoulos, Y., Iliadis, L., Karydis, I. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10450. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67008-9_33

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