In the Margins: Reflections on Scribbles, Knowledge Organization, and Access

摘要

Marginalia or 'scribbling in the margins" is a means for readers to add a more in-depth level of granularity and subject representation to digital documents such as those present in social sharing environments like Flickr and del.icio.us. Social classification and social sharing sites development of user-defined descriptors or tags is discussed in the context of knowledge organization. With this position paper I present a rationale for the use of the resulting folksonomies and tag clouds being developed in these social sharing communities as a rich source of information about our users and their natural organization processes. The knowledge organization community needs to critically examine our understandings of these emerging classifica-tory schema and determine how best to adapt, augment, revitalize existing knowledge organization structures.