Controlled Tagging - an Oxymoron or the Future of Indexing and Retrieval Languages? Cover Image

Tagowanie kontrolowane - oksymoron czy przyszłość języków informacyjno-wyszukiwawczych?
Controlled Tagging - an Oxymoron or the Future of Indexing and Retrieval Languages?

Author(s): Anna Górska
Subject(s): Library and Information Science
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Folksonomies; Controlled tagging; Uniterms; Facet thesauri; FaceTag

Summary/Abstract: Cataloguing the Internet resources is being compared to cataloguing library resources. Social tagging is one of the methods of systematizing the Internet contents. The researchers have been deliberating for several years whether this method is useful for libraries, how its usefulness can be increased, and how to eliminate its shortcomings, to make it an equal tool in library information retrieval systems. The author presents systematic review of current research on this topic, and proposals of folksonomy transformation into controlled tagging systems. She also offers a thesis concerning a tendency of folksonomy development into facet thesaurus, comparing tags to the uniterms’ system.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 2 (100)
  • Page Range: 6-17
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish