I think that's a very important point. There was some earlier research with tagging at Penn State University? which indicated that the low numbers participating reduced the value substantially.
Potentially more interesting are those services such as LibraryThing for Libraries which are not limited to users of a single institution (though coverage is more suited to public libraries, I believe. Westminster have just implemented it http://www.westminster.gov.uk/services/libraries/247/reviews/)
Some systems suppliers are also looking at this across the whole of their userbase, in order to get the scale required, although I think academis will always be problematic due to the 'scatter' effect
Lynn
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We don't have the capacity for this at the moment. Do you need a certain
number of users contributing content to make it valid?
Wendy
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Subject: [CIG-E-FORUM] Social media & catalogues
Huge thanks to you Wendy for starting us off! I shall officially put on
the moderator hat... now!
I thought that a good topic to move on to at this point would be to
discuss if/how social media is being used in your catalogues to engage
users with your materials and/or to encourage contributings of ratings,
comments, or even tags and metadata?
I was particularly considering the type of additions University of
Huddersfield have experimented with, some of which can be seen in their
catalogue (http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=cls) and the
Victoria & Albert Museum's crowdsourcing project for thumbnail images to
display in their OPAC (http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/).
- Nicola.
On 28/03/2012 13:28, Taylor, Wendy wrote:
> Thank you for all your contributions and being so open and honest
> about your own experiences.
> I'm going to hand over to Nicola Osborne now but I'll be staying to
> join in this very interesting discussion and please continue to
> discuss any of the issues already raised if you haven't had a chance
to email.
>
> Wendy
>
>
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