Modelos híbridos de indexação social: análise do repositório de fanfictions Archive of Our Own (AO3)

Abstract

The digital environment has enabled new forms of production, consumption and organization of digital content, such as social indexing. This indexing consists onthe attribution of free tags by users or communities. Fanfictions are fictional stories created by fans, they are deposited in repositories and their indexing is performed by the authors themselves, using a hybrid system of controlled and natural languages. The research aimed to describe qualitatively the social indexing implemented in the fanfictions repositor,Archive of Our Own, in order to make some reflections about the new modes of production and user participation in the representation of content onthe social web. It is concluded that the indexing performed in the analyzed repository adds a curated folkonomy through a team of volunteers trained to follow specific norms. The repository establishes a hybrid and participatory model for indexing itscontent, adding a semantic dimension while ensuring the recovery.