Tagging of Banned and Challenged Books

Abstract

Milwaukee. She has a background in computer science and worked as a programmer/analyst. She has a PhD in library and information science from the University of Western Ontario. Her research interests include social tagging, information organization on the web, classification systems, information retrieval, collaborative web technologies and the creation and visualization of structures in information organization systems.Jihee Beak has a PhD in information studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a member of the Knowledge Organization Research Group, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and an editorial assistant of Knowledge Organization journal. Her major research area is information organization including metadata, children's information seeking behavior, domain analysis, social tagging, subject headings, classification theory, etc. Her dissertation is a child-driven metadata schema based on a children's book selection behavior study.

Subject-based knowledge organisation: An OER for supporting (digital) humanities research

“…These include a lack of indexing rules, different users using different words for the same concept, homonyms not being disambiguated, hierarchical and other relationships between tags being often not being there, tags being written in different forms (singular/plural, spelling variations etc. ), tags being unlimited in quantity or having relevance for personal use only (e.g., a "to read" tag) (see, e.g., Furner, 2010;Kipp et al, 2015). At the same time, social tags are characterised by the natural everyday language that the users are familiar with and can relate to.…”

LibraryThing for Libraries: How Tag Moderation and Size Limitations Affect Tag Clouds

“…Firstly, unlike professional indexing systems, there are no restrictions or rules on how tags should be designed or applied: different users use different words for the same concept, homonyms are not disambiguated, hierarchical and other relationships between tags are often absent, tags may be written in different forms (singular/plural, spelling variations etc. ), they may be unlimited in quantity or may have relevance for personal use only (e.g., "to read") (Furner 2010, Gerolimos 2013, Golder and Huberman 2006, Guy and Tonkin 2006, Kipp et al 2015, Rolla 2009, Steele 2009. At the same time, they are characterized by the natural everyday language that the users are familiar with and can relate to, especially if compared to more formal and traditional subject indexing languages which may not always reflect current terms and may contain outdated terms (Adler 2009, Bates and Rowley 2011, Furner 2010, Spiteri 2006).…”

indexação social em catálogos digitais do GoodReads e Skoob

“…Em outra pesquisa, Kipp, Beak e Graf (2015) coletaram tags atribuídas aos 100 livros proibidos pela American Library Association (ALA) nas plataformas do Librarything, GoodReads e Biblio-Commons e analisaram os termos em busca de encontrar os motivos da censura. Os resultados demonstraram consciência dos motivos da censura, bem como falta de controle de vocabulário nas tags em forma de frases longas e curtas, variedade de termos pessoais ou que não representava o assunto substancialmente.…”

“…Nesse sentido, de acordo com estudos citados (Sousa & Benetti, 2016;Kipp, Beak & Graf, 2015), análise de relatos de usuários na internet e, após um período de uso do Skoob e do GoodReads de seis anos, desde 2015, percebeu-se a existência de problemas relacionados a busca e a recuperação de livros nessas plataformas. Nesse sentido, questionamos como a indexação social de livros é realizada nos catálogos do Skoob e GoodReads e quais são os critérios para realizar esse processo.…”