This folksonomies article is good for the questions it raises, but also
for the data it collects in one place -- lots of good statistics on
del.icio.us and flickr usage of tags in this paper:
Folksonomies: Tidying Up Tags?
"This
article looks at what makes folksonomies work. The authors agree with
the premise that tags are no replacement for formal systems, but they
see this as being the core quality that makes folksonomy tagging so
useful. The authors begin by looking at the issue of "sloppy tags", a
problem to which critics of folksonomies are keen to allude, and ask if
there are ways the folksonomy community could offset such problems and
create systems that are conducive to searching, sorting and
classifying. They then go on to question this "tidying up" approach and
its underlying assumptions, highlighting issues surrounding removal of
low-quality, redundant or nonsense metadata, and the potential risks of
tidying too neatly and thereby losing the very openness that has made
folksonomies so popular." Commentary by Marieke Guy and Emma Tonkin,
UKOLN. [D-Lib Magazine]
(You gotta hand it to the old-school Digital Library people.)
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