Personal Information Management vs. Resource Sharing: Towards a Model of Information Behaviour in Social Tagging Systems
M. Heckner, M. Heilemann, and C. Wolff. Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), San Jose, CA, USA, (May 2009)
Abstract
Social tagging systems allow users to upload and assign keywords
to digital resources. Thus a body of user annotated resources
gradually evolves: Users can share resources, re-find
their own resources or use the systems as search engines for
items added by the whole user population. In this paper we
want to contribute towards a better understanding of usage
patterns within social tagging systems by presenting results
from a survey of 142 users of the systems Flickr, Youtube,
Delicious and Connotea. Data was gathered partly by using
the Mechanical Turk service, and partly via an announcement
on the Connotea blog. Our study reveals differences of user
motivation and tag usage between systems. While (resource)
sharing emerges as an all-embracing intra-system motivation,
users differ with respect to social spheres of sharing. Based
on our results which we integrated with earlier research from
Cool and Belkin (2002), we propose a model of information
behaviour in social tagging systems.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 heckner2009personal
%A Heckner, M.
%A Heilemann, M.
%A Wolff, C.
%B Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
%C San Jose, CA, USA
%D 2009
%K tag taxonomy
%T Personal Information Management vs. Resource Sharing: Towards a Model of Information Behaviour in Social Tagging Systems
%X Social tagging systems allow users to upload and assign keywords
to digital resources. Thus a body of user annotated resources
gradually evolves: Users can share resources, re-find
their own resources or use the systems as search engines for
items added by the whole user population. In this paper we
want to contribute towards a better understanding of usage
patterns within social tagging systems by presenting results
from a survey of 142 users of the systems Flickr, Youtube,
Delicious and Connotea. Data was gathered partly by using
the Mechanical Turk service, and partly via an announcement
on the Connotea blog. Our study reveals differences of user
motivation and tag usage between systems. While (resource)
sharing emerges as an all-embracing intra-system motivation,
users differ with respect to social spheres of sharing. Based
on our results which we integrated with earlier research from
Cool and Belkin (2002), we propose a model of information
behaviour in social tagging systems.
@inproceedings{heckner2009personal,
abstract = {Social tagging systems allow users to upload and assign keywords
to digital resources. Thus a body of user annotated resources
gradually evolves: Users can share resources, re-find
their own resources or use the systems as search engines for
items added by the whole user population. In this paper we
want to contribute towards a better understanding of usage
patterns within social tagging systems by presenting results
from a survey of 142 users of the systems Flickr, Youtube,
Delicious and Connotea. Data was gathered partly by using
the Mechanical Turk service, and partly via an announcement
on the Connotea blog. Our study reveals differences of user
motivation and tag usage between systems. While (resource)
sharing emerges as an all-embracing intra-system motivation,
users differ with respect to social spheres of sharing. Based
on our results which we integrated with earlier research from
Cool and Belkin (2002), we propose a model of information
behaviour in social tagging systems.},
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address = {San Jose, CA, USA},
author = {Heckner, M. and Heilemann, M. and Wolff, C.},
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timestamp = {2010-06-16T11:05:42.000+0200},
title = {Personal Information Management vs. Resource Sharing: Towards a Model of Information Behaviour in Social Tagging Systems},
year = 2009
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