Information Discovery – Long Tail View CREATING GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF LIBRARY USERS WITH OPEN-HYBRID TAXONOMY & FOLKSONOMY 72 OPEN - HYBRID TAXONOMY & FOLKSONOMY IN ACTION Record - 1 Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Felidae Genus: Panthera Species: tigris Title: Bride & Prejudice Subjects: • Man Woman relationships Drama • Musical Films • Feature Films ISBN: 0788858467 Pride & Prejudice Aishwarya Rai Bolly wood Sher Khan Rudyard Kipling Tiger Post your own Folksonomy Tags for this WikiPoster Record 1 & 2 here INTERACTIVE TAGGING EXAMPLE Record - 2 OVERVIEW While information seekers routinely query web search engines using natural language search terms with ease, the library catalogs and other knowledge organization systems are viewed as too complicated because of the controlled formal taxonomies used as search terms provided by classification systems such as LCSH, DDC, or MeSH. It is imperative to come to a common ground for easy information retrieval by using a hybrid of taxonomy and folksonomy or socially collaborative tagging. Semantic web technologies enable users to create tags to categorize information in their own context. Research shows this tagging approach augments controlled subject headings by providing richer metadata which enhances additional findability of resources for global communities. WHAT IS TAXONOMY? In simplest terms, accurate classification created by experts is called taxonomy. Also known as ‘controlled vocabulary’, it is used for structuring information for easier management and retrieval. It forms the basis of classification and indexing systems in information management. Taxonomies help users search organized resources such as catalogs and databases. Limitations of Taxonomy • Understood by few experts only • Subject terms as perceived by author • Controlled and Limiting • Unaccessed information = Lost customer WHAT IS FOLKSONOMY? It is an alternative grassroots approach to categorization bringing natural language to the search arena. Folksonomy begins with tagging. Labels called “tags” make searches more effective as the vocabulary used for tags is user-generated. Cumulative force of all the individual tags produces a bottom-up, self-organized system for classifying information. Limitations of Folksonomy • Folksonomic tagging contributes to the abundance of irrelevant or inaccurate information and is referred to as "Meta Noise". Expert Tags Gothenburg Subject Term Community of Users Göteborg Götheborg Guthaeborg Götheborgh Gottenburg Gothembourg Core Taxonomy Folksonomy: World of Collaborative Users