Flickr and Democratic Indexing: dialogic approaches to indexing
Flickr and Democratic Indexing: dialogic approaches to indexing
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DOI：
10.1108/00012530710817591
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
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通讯作者：
Hidderley, Rob
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作者：
Rafferty, Pauline;Hidderley, Rob
目的-本文的目的有两个：研究主题标引的三种模型（即专家主导的标引、作者生成的标引和用户导向的标引）；并比较和对比两种面向用户的索引方法（即基于理论的民主索引项目和用于描述照片的工作系统Flickr）。设计/方法/方法-检查Flickr和民主索引的方法是可评估的。描述了Flickr的局限性并提供了示例。作者认为，民主索引方法提供了一种编组“免费”用户索引档案的方法，以提供有用的检索功能。研究结果——对Flickr和民主索引方法的研究表明，尽管Shirky声称社会标签的哲学范式发生了转变，但信息专业人士对自组织系统能否在没有某种控制元素和某种形式的“代表性权威”的情况下工作仍存在怀疑。原创性/价值-本文对基于用户的索引和社会标签的文献做出了贡献。
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is two-fold: to examine three models of subject indexing (i.e. expert-led indexing, author-generated indexing, and user-orientated indexing); and to compare and contrast two user-orientated indexing approaches (i.e. the theoretically-based Democratic Indexing project, and Flickr, a working system for describing photographs).Design/methodology/approach - The approach to examining Flickr and Democratic Indexing is evaluative. The limitations of Flickr are described and examples are provided. The Democratic Indexing approach, which the authors believe offers a method of marshalling a "free" user-indexed archive to provide useful retrieval functions, is described.Findings - The examination of both Flickr and the Democratic Indexing approach suggests that, despite Shirky's claim of philosophical paradigm shifting for social tagging, there is a residing doubt amongst information professionals that self-organising systems can work without there being some element of control and some form of "representative authority".Originality/value - This paper contributes to the literature of user-based indexing and social tagging.