FEB MEETING - Tagging: It's the Interface Stupid!

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Tagging: It's the Interface Stupid
A presentation by Joseph A. Busch, Founder and Principal,
Taxonomy  
Strategies LLC

Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Time: 6 - 8 pm
Location: GSI Commerce, Inc., 935 First Avenue, King of
Prussia, PA
RSVP: Please let us know if you are coming at phillyCHIgmail.com

Interest in content user-assigned tags is one of the big new
stories  
on the Web. But content tagging is not a new story. What’s
new about  
Web 2.0 is that end users are doing the tagging instead of 

librarians, and the results are being shown almost instantly
on  
websites like flickr, del.icio.us, Wikipedia, and  
Technorati.Librarians have long contended that end users
cannot  
usefully tag content because they are not trained in how to
do  
indexing. More correctly, end users cannot tag content the
way  
librarians tag content. But this begs the question about
what kind of  
tagging is useful.

Joseph Busch will discuss the usefulness to be found in
tagging as it  
relates to librarians and usability professionals, the
Semantic Web,  
and document and content management practices.

Joseph Busch is the Founder and a Principal of Taxonomy
Strategies.  
Joseph is an authority in the field of information science,
a past  
President of the American Society for Information Science
and  
Technology, and an appointee to the Board of Directors of
the Dublin  
Core Metadata Initiative. He is a frequent speaker on
metadata,  
taxonomy, indexing, classification research, information
retrieval,  
and content management. Read more about Joseph at Taxonomy
Strategies.

The February meeting is sponsored by GSI Commerce, Inc. in
King of  
Prussia, PA. GSI Commerce is a leading provider of
outsourced e- 
commerce solutions for approximately 50 partners. More
information  
about GSI Commerce, Inc. can be found at gsicommerce.com.


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