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标题：Flickr Image Tagging: Patterns Made Visible
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作者：Joan Beaudoin
期刊名称：Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science
出版年度：2007
卷号：34
期号：1
出版社：American Society for Information Science and Technology
摘要：The development and subsequent popularity of image tagging at sites such as Flickr (www.flickr.org) has been a phenomenon to receive considerable attention over the course of the last few years. After spending more than a decade cataloging and providing access to images in an academic setting I, too, felt compelled to take a look at what this Web 2.0 image-sharing site had to offer. There were two interconnected ideas at play when I began thinking about performing a study of Flickr tagging. The first of these ideas had to do with looking for an underlying pattern for the image tags. It seemed likely that some commonalities would occur among what at first glance appeared to be the chaos of personally applied image tags. Finding these common patterns among the tags would clarify what types of information people typically associate with their images. The second idea concerned the effectiveness of image tagging. If patterns were discovered among the image tags, I believed these could be used to alleviate some of the problems associated with tagging. So early in 2006 with these two ideas fresh in mind, I carried out a small study of the image tags used at Flickr.com.