Folksonomies: Flickr image tagging: Patterns made visible

Flickr Image Tagging : Patterns Made Visible

Joan Beaudoin is a doctoral student at Drexel University. She can be reached by email at jeg56drexel.edu. T he development and subsequent popularity of image tagging at sites such as Flickr (www.flickr.org) has been a phenomenon to receive considerable attention over the course of the last few years. After spending more than a decade cataloging and providing access to images in an academic ...

Motivations for image publishing and tagging on flickr

Changes in photographic and internet technology have revolutionised the way people create, process and share digital images. This paper investigates people’s motivations for image publishing and tagging on the web 2.0 site Flickr. Using an online pilot survey, 33 participants answered questions about their uploading and tagging practices, and whether or not they hope to make a commercial gain f...

Beyond Flickr: Not All Image Tagging Is Created Equal

This paper reports on the linguistic analysis of a tag set of nearly 50,000 tags collected as part of the steve.museum project. The tags describe images of objects in museum collections. We present our results on morphological, part of speech and semantic analysis. We demonstrate that deeper tag processing provides valuable information for organizing and categorizing social tags. This promises ...

Position Paper , Tagging , Taxonomy , Flickr , Article , ToRead

In recent years, tagging systems have become increasingly popular. These systems enable users to add keywords (i.e., “tags”) to Internet resources (e.g., web pages, images, videos) without relying on a controlled vocabulary. Tagging systems have the potential to improve search, spam detection, reputation systems, and personal organization while introducing new modalities of social communication...

Folksonomies and Social Tagging: An Annotated Bibliography