%0 Conference Paper %1 heckner2008funny %A Heckner, Markus %A Neubauer, Tanja %A Wolff, Christian %B Proceedings of the 2008 ACM workshop on Search in social media %C New York, NY, USA %D 2008 %I ACM %K PhD multiplatform pragmatics taggingsurvey tags usage %P 3--10 %R 10.1145/1458583.1458589 %T Tree, funny, to\_read, google: what are tags supposed to achieve? a comparative analysis of user keywords for different digital resource types %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1458583.1458589 %X Social tagging systems have become increasingly popular over the past years. Users' tagging practices have been little studied and understood so far. However, understanding tagging behaviour can contribute towards a thorough understanding of the tagging phenomenon from multiple perspectives. In the present paper, results of a comparative analysis of tag characteristics on the tagging platforms <i>connotea.org</i> (scientific articles), <i>del.icio.us</i> (bookmarks), <i>flickr.com</i> (photos), and <i>youtube.com</i> (videos) are presented. Results show that differences in tagging behaviour can be observed for different digital resource types. Finally, a short discussion of the possible implications of the results for the design of future tagging systems is presented. %@ 978-1-60558-258-0

@inproceedings{heckner2008funny, abstract = {Social tagging systems have become increasingly popular over the past years. Users' tagging practices have been little studied and understood so far. However, understanding tagging behaviour can contribute towards a thorough understanding of the tagging phenomenon from multiple perspectives. In the present paper, results of a comparative analysis of tag characteristics on the tagging platforms <i>connotea.org</i> (scientific articles), <i>del.icio.us</i> (bookmarks), <i>flickr.com</i> (photos), and <i>youtube.com</i> (videos) are presented. Results show that differences in tagging behaviour can be observed for different digital resource types. Finally, a short discussion of the possible implications of the results for the design of future tagging systems is presented.}, acmid = {1458589}, added-at = {2012-02-20T13:08:34.000+0100}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Heckner, Markus and Neubauer, Tanja and Wolff, Christian}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/279595b7dad3e8c3d96cb8a78f6cbe8cb/chriskoerner}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2008 ACM workshop on Search in social media}, description = {Tree, funny, to_read, google}, doi = {10.1145/1458583.1458589}, interhash = {7f364ac143db5e5eb8326de52bda9a2d}, intrahash = {79595b7dad3e8c3d96cb8a78f6cbe8cb}, isbn = {978-1-60558-258-0}, keywords = {PhD multiplatform pragmatics taggingsurvey tags usage}, location = {Napa Valley, California, USA}, numpages = {8}, pages = {3--10}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {SSM '08}, timestamp = {2012-03-05T10:22:17.000+0100}, title = {Tree, funny, to\_read, google: what are tags supposed to achieve? a comparative analysis of user keywords for different digital resource types}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1458583.1458589}, year = 2008 }