"A centre of excellence in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information and cultural heritage communities."

UKOLN is based at the University of Bath.

Overview

The Enhanced Tagging for Discovery project investigated the combination and comparison of controlled and folksonomy approaches to support resource discovery in repositories and digital collections. The project evaluated the combination of both approaches in the context of repositories and digital collections, attempting to get the best of both worlds.

The specific aim was to investigate whether vocabulary control and the use of an established KOS can assist in moving free social tagging beyond personal bookmarking to aid resource discovery in context of the JISC Information Environment and eFramework. The project demonstrated use of tagging in different environments and provided an interface that enables use of a traditional classification scheme to enhance free form tags. The project considered issues such as whether prompting with controlled terminology is beneficial.

The project has now been successfully completed. Please visit the Documentation page for project reports and the Results and dissemination page for publications. The main demonstrator is also available (see Demonstrators).

Lead Institution

• UKOLN at the University of Bath

Project partners

• University of Glamorgan, Hypermedia Research Unit: http://hypermedia.research.glam.ac.uk/
• Intute (MIMAS at The University of Manchester): http://www.intute.ac.uk
• Science and Technology Facilities Council, The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory: http://www.scitech.ac.uk/About/Struc/Locs/RAL/facs.aspx

Non-funded supporting partners

• OCLC Office of Research, USA: http://www.oclc.org/
• Danish Royal School of Library and Information Science: http://www.db.dk/english/