Study by Margaret E.I. Kipp, and D. Grant Campbell,
in Knowledge Organization, 2010, vol. 37, n. 4. (In Press)
Summary:
This study examines the question of whether tags can be useful in the process of information retrieval. Participants searched a social bookmarking tool specialising in academic articles (CiteULike) and an online journal database (Pubmed). Participant actions were captured using screen capture software and they were asked to describe their search process. Users did make use of tags in their search process, as a guide to searching and as hyperlinks to potentially useful articles. However, users also made use of controlled vocabularies in the journal database to locate useful search terms and of links to related articles supplied by the database.
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Some of you may remember Dr. Margaret Kipp was a guest speaker in Heather Moulaison's Subject Analysis class last year. Dr. Kipp talked to us about folksonomies and her research using CiteULike.
I especially liked the direct quotes from participants in this study.
12 November 2010
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