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User-defined classification on the online photo sharing site Flickr ... Or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the million typing monkeys

Winget, Megan (2006) User-defined classification on the online photo sharing site Flickr ... Or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the million typing monkeys. In Winget, Megan, Eds. Proceedings 17th Workshop of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group in Classification Research 17, Austin, Texas.

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Abstract

This paper addresses the concerns related to authority and control through focused exploration and description of one of the more popular social tagging sites, Flickr (http://www.flickr.com). After providing a brief background and introduction to Flickr’s social and practical functionalities, this paper focuses on describing the site’s various tagging utilities and related exploration tools, addressing the tripartite concerns regarding the lack of vocabulary control, hierarchical organization, and the policies and procedures that allow for successful classification.

EPrint Type:Conference Paper
Keywords:image indexing
Subjects:Classification
World Wide Web
Indexing
Knowledge Organization
ID Code:1854
Deposited On:16 April 2007
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