But what about at the scene level? And why is temporal metadata — or Tagging TV — the new oil?

You can find it out having a look at the original entry at http://www.appmarket.tv/opinion/1531-the-channel-tagging-tv-and-temporal-metadata.html

Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web

What’s cool about tags is that you can easily tag the same information with multiple tags. Does the information fall in #techcomm, #contentstrategy, and #findability disciplines? You don’t have to choose one folder to assign the content to. With tags, resources can live in multiple places at once.

Tagging is emerging as one of the most common ways to organize resources on the web. Smith notes that Delicious, a social bookmarking site that first appeared in 2003, was one of the first instances of tagging to emerge online. However, he also notes that classification and metadata strategies have been ongoing for centuries, with the Dewey Decimal system as one of the prime examples.

You can read the whole blog entry at http://idratherbewriting.com/2011/12/26/using-tags-to-increase-findability/

You can find the whole blog entry at http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/facebook-gets-broad-patent-on-digital-media-tagging/10693

The Google Prediction API can be used by almost any app to recommend the useful, extract the essential, and automate the repetitive. For example:

• Recommend a new movie to a customer.
• Identify most important customers.
• Automatically tag posts with relevant flags.

For example, Ford Motor Co. Research is working to use the Prediction API to optimize plug-in hybrid vehicle fuel efficiency by optionally providing users with likely destinations to choose from, and soon, optimizing driving controls to conserve fuel. Because the API is a cloud-hosted RESTful service, Ford has been able to access its computationally-intensive machine learning algorithms to find patterns that rank potential destinations based on previous driving paths. Ford will be demonstrating their work at the API’s I/O Session.

For more info see:

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-prediction-api-helps-all-apps-to.html

Uppy Media won DEMO gold award among alpha pitch companies in DEMO 2010 spring conference. See the video here.

The company makes money through affiliate links, so if you just have to have that dress your best mate wore on Friday night, you’re in luck – and so are Uppy.

For similar ideas in this space check out Pixazza, Udorse , and Coolspotters.

This workshop will not focus on the overall topic of social web applications, e.g. Wikipedia, Facebook and so on, since there are already various initiatives on the topic (e.g. the ICWSM conference as well as various workshops SDOW, etc.) but our main focus will be research conducted on tagging systems, based on the three aforementioned areas. Then, we encourage the submission of research papers that deal with the following topics of interest (but not limited to):

• Semantic Tagging and Linked Data
• Semantics of tagging systems
• Tagging systems versus controlled vocabularies
• Extreme tagging methodologies
• Tagging systems in enterprise environments
• Information retrieval in tagging systems
• Tagging and augmented reality
• Best practices for tagging
• Social aspects of tagging
• Prospective views on the future of tagging systems
• Evolution of tagging systems
• Dynamics of tagging systems
• Ontology learning from tagging systems
• Datasets and baseline for evaluating semantic tagging systems
• Social Network analysis based on tagging systems
• Tag and Resource recommendation
• Tags in genuine Web 2.0 applications vs tags in streamed data (e.g. Twitter)
• User profiles from tagging information
• People-tagging
• Multilingual tagging systems
• User-feedback in tagging systems

The deadline of the submissions is 11th of July 2010, the workshop will be held at the 14th of october.

For any further information feel free to check the homepage of the workshop.

Tags are increasingly used to organize user generated content. They give the users the freedom to tag their content with the words that make sense to them making it easier to find their own content. Unfortunately, different words are used for the same things and it is very common to find tags that are missing spaces, have typos, and are redundant or not informative. A publisher with tags of this sort is unable to connect content properly or target advertising effectively. Tags enriched by Bueda can provide not only a better overall user experience but can increase revenue generated from user content.

The Bueda API can transform noisy and redundant tags into back clean, normalized tags, with a breakdown of the semantic concepts represented in the tags. This means that your users still have the freedom of tags, and you still get the benefits of neatly categorized and curated content.

The result is happier users, a better user experience and more revenue.

The Bueda API is currently in private beta.

You can find all the info and even a demo at the Bueda website:  http://www.bueda.com

“As social tagging grows increasingly popular on the Web, organizations are curious to see how this trendy Web 2.0 approach can benefit the business world. (…) Organizations are thus looking to social tagging as a potential solution for increased findability on intranets, news/blog monitoring and collaboration in workgroups. The enterprise context is different however, and many of the elements that make social tagging work on the Web make it a challenge behind the firewall.

(…) A hybrid solution that employs social tagging and formal taxonomy as complementary information access approaches is emerging as a winning solution.

Organizations are interested in using social tagging technology both within workgroups and across the enterprise. Tagging can supplement information retrieval options in intranets and document management systems, allowing employees to use tags to enhance the findability of internal and external content without waiting for an information professional to categorize it.

(…) These all sound like great benefits, so why doesn’t every company implement social tagging? (…) The first major difference between the Web and the enterprise is nature of the content.

The first major difference between the Web and the enterprise is nature of the content. (…)

People are also different on the Web vs. the enterprise. (…)

Other issues that must be considered pertain to the quality of tags and tagging systems. (…)

Essentially, organizations should not be afraid to get involved in social tagging: it is a simple and inexpensive way to inject a little Web 2.0 into your employees’ lives and supplement more formal approaches to findability. (…)”

You can find the whole article here: http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-social-tagging-and-enterprise-does-tagging-work-work.html

On the last 4th of February, IBM patented a way to improve traditional free-text tagging with semantic capabilities basically to improve the exploitation of those annotations/tags. If you are interested on the patent, you can find it just here.

Regarding this free-text tagging vs. more semantic tagging techniques, we should not forget the existence of an specification on these same matters called CommonTag. Of course, the IBM’s patent is more focused on the automatic generation/extraction of the semantics behind free-text tagging (tag clouds) than to directly tag resources semantically. ]]> http://blog.insemtives.eu/2010/02/ibms-patent-about-tagging-and-the-semantic-web/feed/ 0 http://blog.insemtives.eu/2010/01/noticings-the-game-of-noticing-the-world-around-you/ http://blog.insemtives.eu/2010/01/noticings-the-game-of-noticing-the-world-around-you/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:33:48 +0000 gtorodelvalle http://blog.insemtives.eu/?p=196 noticings is a flickr based game to get people uploading and tagging photos in flickr.

Noticings are interesting things that you stumble across when out and about. For example: perplexing pavement markings, a discarded photo, and a ceramic space invader are all noticings.

Players are awarded points for things like spotting the first thing in a neighbourhood, or noticing something every day for a week.

You play Noticings by uploading your photos to Flickr, tagged with ‘noticings’ and geotaggedwith where they were taken. We’ve got a page with the rules and some instructions to help you out.

They offer an iPhone app to upload and to tag your images directly from your iPhone.

More info at http://noticin.gs/.

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