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Aleksandra Pikić, Dorja Mučnjak Library of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

User Behavior in Tagging in the OPAC : the example of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Library in Zagreb. Aleksandra Pikić, Dorja Mučnjak Library of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb. Introduction. Internet user ↔ Web content

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Aleksandra Pikić, Dorja Mučnjak Library of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

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  1. User Behavior in Tagging in the OPAC: the example of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Library in Zagreb Aleksandra Pikić, Dorja Mučnjak Library of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb INFuture 2011 "Information Sciences and e-Society" Zagreb, November 10th 2011

  2. Introduction Internet user ↔ Web content Delicious, Flickr, CitULike Tag - “any word that defines the relationship between the online resource and the concept in the user’s mind” Social tagging, folksonomy VuFind, Library Thing for Library, Scriblio INFuture 2011 "Information Sciences and e-Society" Zagreb, November 10th 2011

  3. Research findings Meaningful and personally useful tag categories Tags bring new information about library material INFuture 2011 "Information Sciences and e-Society" Zagreb, November 10th 2011

  4. Tagging in Koha OPAC of Library of FHSS From June 15th 2010 to June 1st 2011 147 tags in total (48 different) to 124 bibliographic records INFuture 2011 "Information Sciences and e-Society" Zagreb, November 10th 2011

  5. Research problems Which users are the most common taggers, Which type of metadata is marked by tags How do theme tags correspond to the key words in the catalogue? INFuture 2011 "Information Sciences and e-Society" Zagreb, November 10th 2011

  6. Chart 1. Percentage of tags created by different types of users (N=147) INFuture 2011 "Information Sciences and e-Society" Zagreb, November 10th 2011

  7. Number and percentage of tags per type of documents INFuture 2011 "Information Sciences and e-Society" Zagreb, November 10th 2011

  8. Number and percentage of tags per type of information INFuture 2011 "Information Sciences and e-Society" Zagreb, November 10th 2011

  9. Number and percentage of tags per different types of metadata INFuture 2011 "Information Sciences and e-Society" Zagreb, November 10th 2011

  10. Number and percentage of theme tags identical to experts’ key word on the bibliographic record INFuture 2011 "Information Sciences and e-Society" Zagreb, November 10th 2011

  11. Conclusion Small numbers of tags could be explained with the notion that a library catalogue is still perceived as the librarian-professional domain FHSS UZ students are tagging the books for their seminar papers or thesis Relatively large percentage of new key words addedto bib record could be an indicator for the revision of the current uncontrolled term indexing INFuture 2011 "Information Sciences and e-Society" Zagreb, November 10th 2011

  12. Thank you very much! INFuture 2011 "Information Sciences and e-Society" Zagreb, November 10th 2011

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