Publications
Evaluating tagging behavior in social bookmarking systems: metrics and design heuristics
Farooq, U.; Kannampallil, T. G.; Song, Y.; Ganoe, C. H.; Carroll, J. M. & Giles, L.
, 'GROUP '07: Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Conference on supporting group work', ACM, New York, NY, USA, [http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1316624.1316677], 351-360 (2007) [pdf]
Social Bookmarking for Scholarly Digital Libraries
Farooq, U.; Song, Y.; Carroll, J. M. & Giles, C. L.
IEEE Internet Computing, 11(6) 29-35 (2007) [pdf]
Social bookmarking services have recently gained popularity among Web users. Whereas numerous studies provide a historical account of tagging systems, the authors use their analysis of a domain-specific social bookmarking service called CiteULike to reflect on two metrics for evaluating tagging behavior: tag growth and tag reuse. They examine the relationship between these two metrics and articulate design implications for enhancing social bookmarking services. The authors also briefly reflect on their own work on developing a social bookmarking service for CiteSeer, an online scholarly digital library for computer science.