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Contrasting Controlled Vocabulary and Tagging: Do Experts Choose the Right Names to Label the Wrong Things?

Heymann, Paul and Garcia-Molina, Hector (2009) Contrasting Controlled Vocabulary and Tagging: Do Experts Choose the Right Names to Label the Wrong Things? In: Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2009), Late Breaking Results Session, February 9-13, 2009, Barcelona, Spain.

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Abstract

Social cataloging sites---tagging systems where users tag books---provide us with a rare opportunity to contrast tags to other information organization systems. We contrast tags to a controlled vocabulary, the Library of Congress Subject Headings, which has been developed over several decades. We find that many of the keywords designated by tags and LCSH are similar or the same, but that usage of keywords by annotators is quite different.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:tagging, libraries, lcsh
Projects:Miscellaneous
ID Code:955
Deposited By:Paul Heymann
Deposited On:13 Jan 2010 15:23
Last Modified:13 Jan 2010 15:23

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