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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. one of the aspects of sensemaking.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. The research is being led by Partha Partim Sarker , Co-Founder, Bytes for All.

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Tags and Web2.0

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

And if you frequently do research on the web and need to save pointers to a great many sites, you will immediately see its value. This is where folksonomy , as people are calling it, really kicks in. Then others will find it when they search delicious (or other sites, like Technorati , that aggregate delicious bookmarks).

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