Can social tags help you find what you want?

• Main Authors: Khasfariyati Razikin, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian, Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Lee, Chei Sian
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Digital libraries and information portals
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/94588; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7433
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

One of the uses of social tagging is to associate freely selected terms (tags) to resources for sharing resources among tag consumers. This enables tag consumers to locate new resources through the collective intelligence of other tag creators, and offers a new avenue for resource discovery. This pa...