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Week 06: Word Clouds
The following will provide tutorials, definitions and resources for
Folksonomies and World Cloud Tagging. You are not required to look at all of the
material, but search it until you feel that you have a good
understanding of what is required for you to fulfill the
assignment.
| Table of contents |
What are they: Folksonomies and Tagging?
Be aware that sometimes there are lively discussions regarding
definitions.
- Wikipedia Definition of Folksonomies
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy) - Wikipedia
Definition of tags
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags) - Wikipedia Definition of Social Bookmarking
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking)
The following are lists of some ‘link sharing’
services:
- Zoom Clouds
(http://zoomclouds.egrupos.net/) - http://wordle.net/
- Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us)
- Flickr (http://flickr.com)
- Furl (http://furl.net/)
- Shadows (http://shadows.com/)
Links of Interest
- Wordle Video Tutorial (http://bobsprankle.com/flashplayers/tutorials/wordletutorialflash/wordletutorial.html)
- Zoom Clouds tutorial
(http://zoomclouds.egrupos.net/about.html#q1) - This is a list of social software
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_software) - Research paper published by HP labs entitled The
Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems
(http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/tags/index.html)
Examples
- Lots of Zoom Clouds examples
(http://zoomclouds.egrupos.net/about.html#q4) - Tag Cloud (http://www.tagcloud.com/)is
getting overhauled at the moment. The following is a picture of what
they look like: Tag Clouds
(http://yahoo.theherrens.com/)
Look at the Flickr download in the sidebars of the following
blogs:
- Student Blake
Berrett (http://murmurs12.blogspot.com/) - Student Connie Halioris
(http://holographic-universe.blogspot.com/) - Student Paul Jones
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/71197960@N00/)
Assignment
- Add a Wordle tag cloud to your blog that describes you.
