Many hands make light work « Flickr Blog
Interesting Flickr initiative to encourage users to collaboratively tag the Library of Congress photo database. These guys are probably completely missing the crucial problem of incentives and games ("why should I tag LoC photos?") and may need to read so
Terrell Russell: Contextual Authority Tagging
Contextual Authority Tagging is the use of folksonomy to discover and define cognitive authority through reputation within communities of users. Authority is granted by individual users to other individual users with regard to their perceived domains of k
del.icio.us/help/tagdescriptions
tentative solution to cope with tag polisemy, but I wonder if there is any computational interest in unstructured, verbose, human-edited tag descriptions
A cognitive analysis of tagging
Thanks J, I had seen this but I don't find it really impressive, I find Huberman and colleagues' studies much more compelling from a cogsci point of view.