Just announced this morning - a fantastic partnership between Flickr and the Library of Congress.
Flickr Commons
The Library of Congress Pilot Project
The Library of Congress has a Prints and Photographs Online Catalog comprised of over 1 million images (and growing) that have been available online for over 10 years.
Back in June of 2007, we began our [...]
I met quite a few people at the recent ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Milwaukee and told them I’d be getting my poster online.
The poster is up - Tag Decay: A View Into Aging Folksonomies (PDF 1.7MB)
It was a great problem to have people standing, listening, and asking questions for four hours. I just wish [...]
Also tagged asist07, cloudalicious, poster, tagdecayAnother successful BarCampRDU this past Saturday. Fred did a great job organizing the organizers and making it all run smoothly. Red Hat hosted again this year and again, to rave reviews. Pictures and Posts.
I was in charge of the big schedule board again. We had it up much faster this year [...]
Today I was working through how a new application would be handling tags and realized that I strongly believe Flickr has the most robust method of storing and querying tags. I think they do it well and wanted to copy their lead.
The main reason I feel they’ve got the best system is how they [...]
A good week for hearing back about things.
Both short papers I submitted to ASIST were accepted.
Fred and I submitted a claimID write-up with the title “Self-Representation of Online Identity in Collected Hyperlinks”.
Additionally, my first attempt at writing down my thoughts about the use of social tags over time was accepted with the current title “Tag [...]
In an immediate follow-up to last week’s panel… here’s another.
What: EXPRESSIVITY VS. UNIFORMITY: Are controlled vocabularies dead, and if not, should they be?
When: 1:00 to 2:00pm April 2nd, 2007
Where: Pleasants Family Room in Wilson Library at UNC-CH
Who: Led by Dr. Stephanie Haas, with panelists Dr. Gary Marchionini, Terrell Russell, Tim Shearer, Christiane Voisin, and Lynn [...]
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