From the crowd to communities: New interfaces for social tagging

Chao Zhou (1) , Aurélien Bénel (1)

1 Tech-CICO - TECHnologies pour la Coopération, l’Interaction et les COnnaissances dans les collectifs

Social tagging is intimately linked to ‘tag cloud’, the visualization apparatus which is intended to bring the ‘wisdom of crowds’. But what is suited for the ‘crowd’ may be not for communities. In this article, we propose a new interface for social tagging in collaborative systems that includes several improvements: multi-viewpoints, multi-tags selection, and tags relations. We illustrate this apparatus on the collaborative analysis of a scientific archive.

Mots clés: Web 2.0; Visual Interfaces; Social tagging; Scientific archives; Qualitative analysis

Domaines: Web; Réseaux sociaux et d'information [cs.SI]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Chao Zhou, Aurélien Bénel. From the crowd to communities: New interfaces for social tagging. The 8th International Conference on Designing Cooperative Systems, COOP 2008, 2008, Carry-le-Rouet, France. ⟨hal-02917695⟩