Understanding why users tag: A survey of tagging motivation literature and results from an empirical study

Journal of Web Semantics

Volumn 17, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-11

  Strohmaier, Markus ^a   Körner, Christian ^a   Kern, Roman ^b  

^a Knowledge Management Institute   (Austria)

^b KNOW CENTER   (Austria)

Author keywords

Social tagging systems; Tagging motivation; User goals; User motivation

Indexed keywords

MOTIVATION; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); THESAURI;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; RECENT PROGRESS; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SOCIAL TAGGING SYSTEMS; STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS; TAGGING SYSTEMS; USER GOALS; USER MOTIVATION;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84870063593     PISSN: 15708268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.websem.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. S. Golder, and B. Huberman Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems J. Inf. Sci. 32 2 2006 198
2. C. Marlow, M. Naaman, D. Boyd, and M. Davis Ht06, tagging paper, taxonomy, flickr, academic article, to read HYPERTEXT'06: Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2006 ACM New York, NY, USA 31 40
3. P. Mika Ontologies are us: a unified model of social networks and semantics Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web 5 1 2007 5 15
4. E. Chi, and T. Mytkowicz Understanding the efficiency of social tagging systems using information theory HYPERTEXT'08: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2008 ACM New York, NY, USA 81 88
5. Y. Yanbe, A. Jatowt, S. Nakamura, and K. Tanaka Can social bookmarking enhance search in the web? Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2007 ACM 116
6. P. Heymann, G. Koutrika, and H. Garcia-Molina Can social bookmarking improve web search? WSDM'08: Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining 2008 ACM 195 206
7. A. Hotho, R. Jäschke, C. Schmitz, and G. Stumme Information retrieval in folksonomies: search and ranking Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci. 4011 2006 411
8. P. Heymann, H. Garcia-Molina, Collaborative creation of communal hierarchical taxonomies in social tagging systems, Tech. Rep., Computer Science Department, Stanford University, April 2006. URL: http://dbpubs.stanford.edu: 8090/pub/2006-10.
9. M. Heckner, M. Heilemann, C. Wolff, Personal information management vs. resource sharing: towards a model of information behaviour in social tagging systems, in: ICWSM'09: Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, San Jose, CA, USA, 2009.
10. T. Hammond, T. Hannay, B. Lund, and J. Scott Social bookmarking tools (I) D-Lib Mag. 11 4 2005 1082 9873
11. R. Wash, E. Rader, Public bookmarks and private benefits: an analysis of incentives in social computing, in: ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Citeseer, 2007.
12. T. Coates, Two cultures of fauxonomies collide, 2005. http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/06/twoculturesoffauxonomiescollide/ (last access: 08.05.08).
13. S. Golder, and B.A. Huberman Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems J. Inf. Sci. 32 2 2006 198 208 URL: http://jis.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10. 1177/0165551506062337
14. Z. Xu, Y. Fu, J. Mao, D. Su, Towards the semantic web: collaborative tag suggestions, in: Collaborative Web Tagging Workshop at WWW2006, Edinburgh, Scotland, Citeseer, 2006.
15. S. Sen, S. Lam, A. Rashid, D. Cosley, D. Frankowski, J. Osterhouse, F. Harper, and J. Riedl Tagging, communities, vocabulary, evolution Proceedings of the 2006 20th Anniversary Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2006 ACM 190
16. M. Ames, and M. Naaman Why we tag: motivations for annotation in mobile and online media CHI'07: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in Computing Systems 2007 ACM New York, NY, USA 971 980 URL: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1240624.1240772
17. O. Nov, M. Naaman, C. Ye, Motivational, structural and tenure factors that impact online community photo sharing, in: ICWSM 2009: Proceedings of AAAI Int'l Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2009.
18. M. Heckner, T. Neubauer, and C. Wolff Tree, funny, toread, google: what are tags supposed to achieve? A comparative analysis of user keywords for different digital resource types Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Workshop on Search in Social Media SSM'08 2008 ACM New York, NY, USA 3 10 10.1145/1458583.1458589 URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1458583.1458589
19. K. Bischoff, C.S. Firan, W. Nejdl, and R. Paiu Can all tags be used for search? CIKM'08: Proceeding of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2008 ACM New York, NY, USA 193 202 URL: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1458112
20. E. Rader, and R. Wash Influences on tag choices in del.icio.us CSCW'08: Proceedings of the ACM 2008 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2008 ACM New York, NY, USA 239 248 URL: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id= 1460563.1460601&coll=Portal&dl=GUIDE&CFID=31571793&CFTOKEN= 71651308
21. C. Körner, R. Kern, H.P. Grahsl, and M. Strohmaier Of categorizers and describers: an evaluation of quantitative measures for tagging motivation 21st ACM SIGWEB Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia HT 2010 2010 ACM Toronto, Canada
22. S. Sen, S.K. Lam, A.M. Rashid, D. Cosley, D. Frankowski, J. Osterhouse, F.M. Harper, and J. Riedl Tagging, communities, vocabulary, evolution CSCW'06: Proceedings of the 2006 20th Anniversary Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2006 ACM New York, NY, USA 181 190 URL: http://portal.acm.org/ citation.cfm?id=1180904
23. M. Strohmaier, C. Körner, R. Kern, Why do users tag? Detecting users' motivation for tagging in social tagging systems, in: International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM2010, Washington, DC, USA, May 23-26, 2010.
24. J. Sinclair, and M. Cardew-Hall The folksonomy tag cloud: when is it useful? J. Inf. Sci. 34 1 2008 15
25. R. Lambiotte, and M. Ausloos Collaborative tagging as a tripartite network Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci. 3993 2006 1114
26. A. Hotho, R. Jäschke, C. Schmitz, G. Stumme, BibSonomy: a social bookmark and publication sharing system, in: Proceedings of the Conceptual Structures Tool Interoperability Workshop at the 14th Int'l Conference on Conceptual Structures, Citeseer, 2006, pp. 87-102.
27. T.M. Cover, and J.A. Thomas Elements of Information Theory 1991 Wiley-Interscience New York, NY, USA
28. U. Farooq, T. Kannampallil, Y. Song, C. Ganoe, J. Carroll, and L. Giles Evaluating tagging behavior in social bookmarking systems: metrics and design heuristics Proceedings of the 2007 Int'l ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work 2007 ACM 351 360
29. C. Körner, D. Benz, M. Strohmaier, A. Hotho, and G. Stumme Stop thinking, start tagging - tag semantics emerge from collaborative verbosity Proceedings of the 19th International World Wide Web Conference WWW 2010 2010 ACM Raleigh, NC, USA
30. Z. Xu, Y. Fu, J. Mao, D. Su, Towards the semantic web: collaborative tag suggestions, in: Proceedings of the Collaborative Web Tagging Workshop at the WWW 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2006. URL: http://.inf.unisi.ch/phd/mesnage/site/ Readings/Readings.html.
31. T. Eda, M. Yoshikawa, T. Uchiyama, and T. Uchiyama The effectiveness of latent semantic analysis for building up a bottom-up taxonomy from folksonomy tags World Wide Web 12 4 2009 421 440 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11280-009- 0069-1
32. P.A. Chirita, S. Costache, W. Nejdl, and S. Handschuh P-tag: large scale automatic generation of personalized annotation tags for the web WWW'07: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on World Wide Web 2007 ACM New York, NY, USA 845 854 URL: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1242686&dl= GUIDE
33. A. Shepitsen, J. Gemmell, B. Mobasher, and R. Burke Personalized recommendation in social tagging systems using hierarchical clustering Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems 2008 ACM 259 266
34. C. Körner, D. Benz, A. Hotho, M. Strohmaier, and G. Stumme Stop thinking, start tagging: tag semantics arise from collaborative verbosity 19th International World Wide Web Conference WWW2010, Raleigh, NC, USA, April 26-30 2010 ACM
35. D. Helic, C. Trattner, M. Strohmaier, K. Andrews, On the navigability of social tagging systems, in: The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom2010, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, August 20-22, 2010.