Social Tagging in a Linked Data Environment

Diane Rasmussen Pennington, Louise Spiteri

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English

Facet Publishing
31 March 2019

Library, archive & information management; Automation of library & information processes; Bibliographic & subject control; Information retrieval; Databases & the Web

Social tagging (including hashtags) is used over platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, WordPress, Tumblr and YouTube across countries and cultures meaning that one single hashtag can link information from a variety of resources. This new book explores social tagging as a potential form of linked data and shows how it can provide an increasingly important way to categorise and store information resources.

The internet is moving rapidly from the social web embodied in Web 2.0, to the Semantic Web (Web 3.0), where information resources are linked to make them comprehensible to both machines and humans. Traditionally library discovery systems have pushed information, but did not allow for any interaction with the users of the catalogue, while social tagging provides a means to help library discovery systems become social spaces where users could input and interact with content.

The editors and their international contributors explore key issues including:

the use of hashtags in the dissemination of public policy

the use of hashtags as information portals in library catalogues

social tagging in enterprise environments

the linked data potential of social tagging

sharing and disseminating information needs via social tagging.

Social Tagging in a Linked Data Environment will be useful reading for practicing library and information professionals involved in electronic access to collections, including cataloguers, system developers, information architects and web developers. It would also be useful for students taking programmes in library and Information science, information management, computer science, and information architecture.

Edited by: Diane Rasmussen Pennington, Louise Spiteri
Imprint: Facet Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781783303397
ISBN 10: 1783303395
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 31 March 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Diane Rasmussen Pennington is a Lecturer in Information Science in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde. She is also Hon Secretary for CILIP’s Library and Information Research Group (LIRG) and the Social Media Manager for the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). A former systems librarian, she teaches classes in the organisation of knowledge and library technologies. Her research investigates representation and retrieval of non-text information as well as online health information. She is the editor of Facet's Computing for Information Professionals series. Louise Spiteri is Associate Professor at the School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her areas of research interest focus on social tagging, user-generated metadata, discovery systems, classification systems, and taxonomies. She teaches in the areas of metadata, cataloguing, information management, and records management and is the editor of the Facet Publishing book, Managing Metadata in Web-scale Discovery Systems (2016).

Reviews for Social Tagging in a Linked Data Environment

'Overall, this is a well-researched, collaborative and useful book. It provides an in-depth look into the practical benefits of social tagging and recommendation systems... I definitely recommend this book for people who are interested in user-generated metadata and how it can be used along with legacy and standards-based metadata approaches.' -- Getaneh Alemu * Catalogue & Index *