Integrating tagging: tagging as integration

Mark R. Lindner

Visiting Serials Cataloger

Outline

• Quick overview of Integrationism

• “Community” as macrosocial

• Towards integration

• Tagging as integration

Integrationism

• theory of linguistics and communication

• opposed to segregational accounts

• Roy Harris, Professor Emeritus, Oxford

Time

• is the key factor in human communication

• Our senses are integrated across, through and in time.

Constraints on human communication

• Biomechanical

• Macrosocial

• Circumstantial

The Sign

“A sign is integrational in the sense that it typically involves the contextualized application of biomechanical skills within a certain macrosocial framework, thereby contributing to the integration of activities which would otherwise remain unintegrated.”

Harris, R. (1995) Signs of writing, pp. 22-23

“Community” is the macrosocial

• Proficiency

• Practice

• Conformity

Towards integration

• Tennis (2006)

• Sen, et. al. (2006)

• Kipp (2007)

• Campbell (2007)

• Kipp (2008)

Tagging as integration

• Individual tagging

• Community tagging

Sources

• Campbell, D. G. (2007). The long tail of forgetting: Libraries, the Web 2.0, and the phenomenology of memory. In C. Arsenault & K. Dalkir (Eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (p. 12). McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. Retrieved May 4, 2008, from http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2007/campbell_2007.pdf.

• Harris, R. (1995). Signs of Writing. London: Routledge.

• Harris, R. (1996a). Signs, Language, and Communication: Integrational and Segregational Approaches. London: Routledge.

• Harris, R. (2005). Integrationism. Roy Harris Online. http://www.royharrisonline.com/integrationism.html Viewed 26 Oct 2008.

Sources

• IAISLC, What is Integrationism? The International Association for the Integrational Study of Language and Communication (IAISLC)

http://www.integrationists.com/integrationism.html Viewed 26 Oct 2008.• Kipp, M. E. I. (2007). Tagging practices on research oriented social

bookmarking sites. In C. Arsenault & K. Dalkir (Eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (p. 13). Mcgill University, Montreal, Quebec. Retrieved May 4, 2008, from http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2007/kipp_2007.pdf.

• Kipp, M. E. I. (2008b). @toread and Cool : Subjective, Affective and Associative Factors in Tagging. In Proceedings Canadian Association for Information Science/L'Association canadienne des sciences de l'information (CAIS/ACSI) (p. 7). Vancouver, British Columbia: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved September 7, 2008, from http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00013788/.

Sources

• Sen, S., Lam, S. K., Rashid, A. M., Cosley, D., Frankowski, D., Osterhouse, J., et al. (2006). tagging, communities, vocabulary, evolution. In Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work (pp. 181-190). Banff, Alberta, Canada: ACM. Retrieved October 24, 2008, from http://portal.acm.org.proxy2.library.uiuc.edu/citation.cfm?id=1180875.1180904&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=5764831&CFTOKEN=12441359.

• Tennis, J. T. (2006). Comparative Functional Analysis of Boundary Infrastructures, Library Classification, and Social Tagging. In H. Moukdad (Ed.), Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (p. 10). York University, Toronto, Ontario. Retrieved May 4, 2008, from http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2006/tennis_2006.pdf.

Thank you!

Mark R. LindnerVisiting Serials Cataloger and Visiting Assistant Professor of Library

Administration

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

Certificate of Advanced Study candidate, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, UIUC

mlindner@illinois.edu

217-244-1889