What Is tagging? -- How tagging works -- Why tagging matters -- Summary -- The value of tagging -- What tags can do for you -- Return on experience: five motivations for tagging -- Return on investment: seven business benefits -- Summary -- Tagging system architecture -- Users, resources, and tags: exploring our three-part model of tagging -- Tagging in practice: examples from the real world -- Summary -- Tags, metadata, and classification systems -- Metadata for the masses -- Taxonomies and controlled vocabularies -- Facets --Folksonomies -- Tags in the metadata ecosystem -- Summary -- Navigation and visualization -- Tag clouds -- Navigating tags -- Geotagging -- Summary -- Interfaces -- Patterns in tagging interfaces -- Tag entry -- Suggestions -- Tag management -- Summary -- Technical design -- Data models -- Tag clouds -- Freetag -- Summary -- Appendix A. Case study: social bookmarking -- Tagging evolution: from Muxway to Del.icio.us -- How social bookmarking works -- Summary -- Appendix B. Case study: media sharing -- How media sharing works -- Summary -- Appendix C. Case study: personal information management -- Tagging for PIM -- Summary.
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"This book explains the value of tagging, explores why people tag, how tagging works and when it can be used to improve the user experience. It exposes tagging's superficial simplicity to reveal interesting issues related to usability, information architecture, online community and collective intelligence." [Publisher's description].