Social Bookmarking: One thing that really interested me was the possibilities for social bookmarking in libraries or archives. The article discusses the university of Pennsylvania's use of tagging to incorporate websites into the catalog. I wonder about the use of social bookmarking for the items within the collection. Obviously there would be some of the pitfalls associated with untrained cataloging of collection, but I wonder whether it might produce interesting alternative results to LoC subject headings.
Wikipedia: Wale's discussion of the vandalism systems was especially interesting to me. This week I was reading the Pieter Bruegel the Elder page on Wikipedia. It was clearly vandalized, as one of Bruegel's paintings was listed as being held at the "What the Frick? Collection in New Pork City (ha ha ha.). Sure enough, the page was fixed within days.
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Yeah I enjoyed the intro to Jimmy Wales/Wikipedia video as well, also anonymous editors are only 18% and the rest are his legion of volunteers or "famous wikipedians"
That is pretty funny -- and also a very good example of validity of Wikipedia as a source. I have to think that if someone saw something so silly as "New Pork City" they'd get a clue that something was amiss and check back later (after having a laugh, for life is way too short not to stop and have a laugh).
Social tagging was really interesting to me too. I was listening to one of the podcasts of an interview of the creator of Library Thing or something like it. He was talking about when they were deciding what kind of subject classification system they were going to use. Librarians were getting all up in arms about what was best, but he pointed out that it would be on the Internet and they were virtually limitless. So why not make things as easy as possible for people to use.
A replacement for LoC subject headings would be great; I find those things so hard to figure out sometimes. Social tagging could make it more intuitive. Maybe it could also be a way to link an institution's library and archival materials even though they are likely cataloged differently.
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