TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluating tagging behavior in social bookmarking systems
T2 - 2007 International ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP'07
AU - Farooq, Umer
AU - Kannampallil, Thomas G.
AU - Song, Yang
AU - Ganoe, Craig H.
AU - Carroll, John M.
AU - Giles, Lee
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - To improve existing social bookmarking systems and to design new ones, researchers and practitioners need to understand how to evaluate tagging behavior. In this paper, we analyze over two years of data from CiteULike, a social bookmarking system for tagging academic papers. We propose six tag metrics-tag growth, tag reuse, tag non-obviousness, tag discrimination, tag frequency, and tag patterns-to understand the characteristics of a social bookmarking system. Using these metrics, we suggest possible design heuristics to implement a social bookmarking system for CiteSeer, a popular online scholarly digital library for computer science. We believe that these metrics and design heuristics can be applied to social bookmarking systems in other domains.
AB - To improve existing social bookmarking systems and to design new ones, researchers and practitioners need to understand how to evaluate tagging behavior. In this paper, we analyze over two years of data from CiteULike, a social bookmarking system for tagging academic papers. We propose six tag metrics-tag growth, tag reuse, tag non-obviousness, tag discrimination, tag frequency, and tag patterns-to understand the characteristics of a social bookmarking system. Using these metrics, we suggest possible design heuristics to implement a social bookmarking system for CiteSeer, a popular online scholarly digital library for computer science. We believe that these metrics and design heuristics can be applied to social bookmarking systems in other domains.
KW - CiteSeer
KW - CiteULike
KW - Collaboration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=58049087118&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1316624.1316677
DO - 10.1145/1316624.1316677
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:58049087118
SN - 9781595938459
T3 - GROUP'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work
SP - 351
EP - 360
BT - GROUP'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 International ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work
Y2 - 4 November 2007 through 7 November 2007
ER -