Peer-reviewed research paper

@toread and Cool: tagging for time, task and emotion

Research paper by: Margaret Kipp, University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Information and Media Studies

Sunday March 25 2007, 4:00 - 4:45PM

This paper examines the use of non subject related tags in three social bookmarking tools (Del.icio.us, Connotea and Citeulike). Previous studies of Del.icio.us and Citeulike determined that many common tags are not directly subject related but are in fact affective tags dwelling on a user's emotional response to a document or are time and task related tags related to a users current projects or activities. A set of non subject tags from the previous studies was used to collect posts with non subject tags from the three listed social bookmarking tools. These tags have been analysed to examine their role in the tagging process.