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Feel free to comment your thoughts and suggest other del.icio.us users who are inventing their own best practices.
Create a parent categories, and thus a rudimentary hierarchy, with parent_tag/subject_tag
Mention publications names with in:publication_name
Flag the type of resource with .extension or =resource_type
Use a combination of general and specific tags on every bookmark to provide both clustering and differentiation
Use synonyms or alternate forms of tags
Use unique or distinctive terms from documents as tags (don't just use major subject terms).
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great tips!
One good startingpoint for finding more useful deliciouser is the Top Del.icio.us Users list: http://collabrank.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/del.icio.us/?cmd=helpful_users
(I don’t like the use of synonyms though. It shoudn’t be the job of one person to cover each and every possible term someone might use for searching. Usually others will complement the tags for a resource pretty fast)
You forgot:
http://del.icio.us/jamesmelzer
Yes, I agree and therefore I find very interesting the Squidoo project of Seth Godin and whole concept of “lences”.
Description and links on his blog
Samples
Saurier, I agree about CollaborativeRank – it is a useful tool for finding expert users in your field. However, tagging popular URLs early and often (which is basically what CollaborativeRank measures) does not necessarily equate to tagging well. It’s interesting to look at the folks who are most highly rated on CollaborativeRank. It is shocking how much they bookmark. It’s often dozens or even hundreds of URLs per day. Does that mean that they’re tagging the best stuff, or literally tagging everything they encounter? It’s hard to say.
I highly recommend taking these experts out for a test drive. Look at their tagging. Is it helpful? Sample their bookmarks. Are they interesting? Subscribe to their RSS for a couple days. Is it useful?
Sometimes you just need an expert or two to help learn new material. Others are good for keeping up with your core field(s). Still others are good for watching the periphery of your field.
[side note: According to CollaborativeRank, I am the world's foremost authority on the tag folksonomies. I say this with a bit of irony, since I don't use that tag. Apparently, other people use that tag to bookmark URLs I've already tagged. Or something.]
CollaborativeRank is a work in progress. Expect it to improve, particularly if people give me lots of feedback.
Also, try the search (which has rss btw). You might find it more helpful than the expert ranking.
I’m not sure about following ‘expert users’ as they aren’t interested in what I am, but I do think it useful to follow users who are ‘like me’.
And that is usually people I know, like Dan and Peter and Thomas and you. So what is funny about that is that it wraps back to lovely, human contacts.
Donna, I completely agree. As with RSS feeds, our community ends up reading one another’s material. One technique I use is the del.icio.us bookmarklet for TagRank. It shows you who tagged a URL, when they tagged it and what tags they used.
This enables me to find folks like Lou who bookmark some of the same things I do.
Hah! I was going to say the same thing about you. James and I are part of a little experiment to share a tag to keep each other informed about a fairly esoteric topic of common interest, enterprise information architecture. The tag we use is “enterprise_ia“. Considering how coarse most del.icio.us tags are, it’s unlikely this narrow tag would have emerged any time soon unless we took this sort of concerted action.
I’m still a little surprised that when I suggested this type of communal tagging, it came under some fire as not within the spirit of folksonomic tagging (see comments in http://louisrosenfeld.com/home/bloug_archive/000363.html ). I still find it ironic to be criticized for using a tool for group benefit, especially when it doesn’t impact others. And really ironic to be told, in a top-down way, how to use and not use a tool that’s based on a grass roots philosophy.
In any case, sharing a tag this way is proving to be a hugely useful monitoring tool. I highly encourage it!
I’ve been playing with CollaborativeRank this morning and I’m really confused. Here are my areas of expertise:
health, realitytv, disaster, cookies, medicine, collaboration, email, ajax, spreadsheet, notes
RealityTV? Really? I bookmark a lot of mandolin stuff, but I don’t even show up in a search on the mandolin tag. Compared to some of the other tags I use (eg “design” and “business”) it seems like “mandolin” is pretty obscure.
I then noticed that my bookmarks were imported “indirectly” into CollaborativeRank. The FAQ distinguishes them:
This means that the rankings are skewed based on whether your bookmarks were imported directly or indirectly, which seems to throw all this data (and its utility) into question.
I guess I should note, to be fair, that I didn’t include any known IAs in the sample of experts above. I didn’t want to single out anyone I actually know :)
As Donna pointed out, a lot of IA (or UX or whatever) folks produce top-quality del.icio.us links.
I agree, Tagging is still very new, there’s a need of specific guidlines.
How I found a power user.
Following them is good, but finding them to begin with is a challenge, too.
I’ve done this very thing for a while now (follow expert users), and that’s actually how I found you. :-) I was looking around del.icio.us to see how people tagged stuff that they wanted to read later. I found lots of variations, but !toread seemed best. I checked out who used those tags. When I saw the other tags you had, I added you to my del.icio.us inbox.
I now watch both your tags and your bookmarks, but watching the tags provides some interesting insights into convention and organization. Excellent summary. Thanks for your work!
Nice list. Maybe you will find more dedicated experts who are making these third party del.icio.us tools.
thanks for your comments on my blog, James. Sorry I didn’t provide a trackback – this is a very useful post indeed. Enjoyed looking at your examples, thanks – I will be keeping an eye on how your faceting ends up.