Chapter . Introduction
“When the novelty wears off...I think that tagging will have altered the information landscape in a fundamental way.” | ||
| --Jon Udell | ||
About three years ago I asked a simple question on the Information Architecture Institute’s mailing list: “Some of you might have noticed services like Furl, Flickr, and Del.icio.us using user-defined labels or tags to organize and share information.... Is there a name for this kind of informal social classification?” That question started an enduring interest in tags, folksonomies, and other kinds of people-powered metadata.
Tagging is changing how we find, use, and share information. And as Jon Udell suggests, it will have a long-term impact on our information landscape.
This book documents those ...
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