Folksonomies: (Un)Controlled Vocabulary?

Abstract

Folksonomy, a free-form tagging, is a user-generated classification system of web contents that allows users to tag their favourite web resources with their chosen words or phrases selected from natural language. These tags (also called concepts, categories, factes or entities) can be used to classify web resources and to express users' preferences. Folksonomy-based systems allow users to classify web resources through tagging bookmarks, photos or other web resources and saving them to a public web site like Del.icio.us. Thus information about web resources and online articles can be shared in an easy way. The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the folksonomy tagging phenomenon (also called social tagging and social bookmarking) and explore some of the reasons why we need controlled vocabularies, discussing the problems associated with folksonomy.

Alireza Noruzi (2006). Folksonomies: (Un)Controlled Vocabulary? Knowledge Organization, 33(4).

A Study of HTML Title Tag Creation Behavior of Academic Web Sites

Abstract

The HTML title tag information should identify and describe exactly what a web page contains. This paper analyzes the Title element and raises a significant question: "Why is the title tag important?" Search engines base search results and page rankings on certain criteria. Among the most important criteria is the presence of the search keywords in the title tag. This research concentrates on exploring the retrieval results of Google in retrieving web pages without the title tag. More than one million of academic web pages are found to be untitled, that is, they have not used the title tag.

Noruzi, Alireza (2007). A Study of HTML Title Tag Creation Behavior of Academic Web Sites. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 33(4): 501-506.