1. User Behavior in Tagging in the OPAC : the example of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Library in Zagreb
Aleksandra Pikić, Dorja Mučnjak
Library of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Zagreb
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2. Introduction Internet user ↔ Web content Delicious, Flickr, CitULike
Tag - “any word that defines the relationship between the online resource and the concept in the user’s mind”
Social tagging, folksonomy
VuFind, Library Thing for Library, Scriblio
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3. Research findings Meaningful and personally useful tag categories
Tags bring new information about library material
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4. Tagging in Koha OPAC of Library of FHSS
From June 15th 2010 to June 1st 2011
147 tags in total (48 different) to 124 bibliographic records
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5. Research problems Which users are the most common taggers,
Which type of metadata is marked by tags
How do theme tags correspond to the key words in the catalogue?
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6. Chart 1. Percentage of tags created by different types of users (N=147)
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7. Number and percentage of tags per type of documents%
Books
135
91.8
Theses 12
8.2
TOTAL
147
100.0
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8. Number and percentage of tags per type of information%
Private information 77
52.4
Meaningful information 70
47.6
TOTAL
147
100.0
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9. Number and percentage of tags per different types of metadata
Type of metadata N %
Theme 53
75.7
Author 8
11.4
Title 9
12.9
TOTAL 70
100.0
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10. Number and percentage of theme tags identical to experts’ key word on the bibliographic record
Is there an identical experts’ key word in the bib record? N % No 40
75.5
Yes 13
24.5
TOTAL 53
100.0
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11. Conclusion
Small numbers of tags could be explained with the notion that a library catalogue is still perceived as the librarian-professional domain
FHSS UZ students are tagging the books for their seminar papers or thesis
Relatively large percentage of new key words added to bib record could be an indicator for the revision of the current uncontrolled term indexing
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12. Thank you very much!
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