Web 2.0 sociable technologies and social software are presented as enablers in health and
health care, for organizations, clinicians, patients and laypersons. They include social …

This paper reviews research into social tagging and folksonomy (as reflected in about 180
sources published through December 2007). Methods of researching the contribution of …

The growing flood of scholarly literature is exposing the weaknesses of current, citation–
based methods of evaluating and filtering articles. A novel and promising approach is to …

In growing numbers, scholars are integrating social media tools like blogs, Twitter, and
Mendeley into their professional communications. The online, public nature of these tools …

Social bookmark tools are rapidly emerging on the Web. In such systems users are setting
up lightweight conceptual structures called folksonomies. The reason for their immediate …

Collaborative tagging systems allow users to assign keywords—so called “tags”—to
resources. Tags are used for navigation, finding resources and serendipitous browsing and …

This paper presents an evolving framework of human information behavior. The framework
emerges from theories and empirical studies from a variety of research traditions, including …

Because, to paraphrase a pop music lyric from a certain rock and roll band of yesterday," the
Web is old, the Web is new, the Web is all, the Web is you", it seems like we might have to …

Collaborative tagging systems---systems where many casual users annotate objects with
free-form strings (tags) of their choosing---have recently emerged as a powerful way to label …

Collaborative tagging has been quickly gaining ground because of its ability to recruit the
activity of web users into effectively organizing and sharing vast amounts of information …