Saturday, August 9, 2008

Tags

I didn't find the PLCMCL2 account particularly useful for this exercise. I looked at several bookmarked sites, but did not see any comments, as the exercise #13 suggested.

As far as tags go, I think it has been demonstrated that natural language descriptors work well for the type of social networking sites we have been exploring.

I can see the value of using tags rather than formal subject headings to suggest particular web sites to customers. We could also allow customers to suggest web sites and submit them to JPL for sharing on the web page. But who knows? Maybe people who are most comfortable with Web 2 tools do not even visit public library sites to find research resources.

I suppose the point is that we need to use many different tools to communicate with our customers.

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