A Study on the General Patterns of Folksonomy Tag for the University Libraries

This study has introduced folksonomy to general patterns of folksonomy tags for the university libraries that have practically implemented Library 2.0. From the results, we can see that average about 1.35 tag is used for one content. Typical pattern of the tags follow a power function that frequency of use decreases as No. of uses increases, 79.51% of tags are expressing topic of contents, and 84.61% of tags are tag of social motivation. The results of analysis on increase/decrease rate for tags divided into 4 quarters said that A university library has big differences from quarters while B university library has similar data between quarters. The users have used average 5.25 tags. Trends of the users can be divided into 3 groups according to tagging patterns of the users.

keywords: 폭소노미, 태그, 소셜 태그, 사회적 태깅, 사회적 분류, 대학도서관, 라이브러리 2.0

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Vol.20 No.1

A Study on the General Patterns of Folksonomy Tag for the University Libraries

Abstract

한국비블리아학회지