The Searching Effectiveness of Social Tagging in Museum Websites

This paper explores the search effectiveness of social tagging which allows the public to freely tag resources, denoted as keywords, with any words as well as to share personal opinions on those resources. Social tagging potentially helps users to organize, manage, and retrieve resources. Efficient...

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Published inEducational technology & society Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 126 - 136
Main Authors Cho, Chung-Wen, Yeh, Ting-Kuang, Cheng, Shu-Wen, Chang, Chun-Yen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Palmerston North International Forum of Educational Technology & Society 01.10.2012
Subjects
Collaborative tagging
Collaborative Writing
Educational resources
Electronic learning
Epistemology
Foreign Countries
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Full text searching
Group Experience
Indexing
Information Retrieval
Information storage and retrieval
Keywords
Management
Methods
Museums
Online searching
Opinions
Program Effectiveness
Queries
Query processing
Retrieval
Science fairs
Science Teaching Centers
Search engines
Search Strategies
Searching
Sharing Behavior
Social networks
Surveys
Tagging
Tags
Taiwan
Web 2.0
Web Sites
Websites
Taiwan
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Summary:This paper explores the search effectiveness of social tagging which allows the public to freely tag resources, denoted as keywords, with any words as well as to share personal opinions on those resources. Social tagging potentially helps users to organize, manage, and retrieve resources. Efficient retrieval can help users put more of their focus on studying the resources rather than the retrieval process. This study was an investigation into the relations between social tags and user queries. Our findings were summarized into 4 main points: 1) 85% of the surveyed users agreed that social tags assisted them in searching for resources; 2) Over 40% of user queries searches, found their resources via the matching of social tags; 3) Social tags matched over 70% of user queries; 4) 14% of the social tags for a resource did not appear in the context of the resource. The experimental results demonstrated that social tags can improve users' efficiency in searching for resources.
ISSN:1176-3647
1436-4522
1436-4522