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Of kings, traffic signs and flowers: exploring navigation of tagged documents

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Many popular Web 2.0 sites support navigation of tagged web resources. The tag-based navigation has been described as a lightweight reorientation of view on tags and the associated web resources. But is this navigation really lightweight? This paper briefly presents an interface created to support navigation of tagged documents. The paper then describes a study that explored users' understanding of the tag-based navigation process and the underlying information space. The results point to difficulties in promoting correct understanding of complex relationships between documents and tags and to the need for creating interfaces that support navigation continuity.

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HT '10: Proceedings of the 21st ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
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DOI:10.1145/1810617
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  • (2013)An expressive framework and efficient algorithms for the analysis of collaborative taggingThe VLDB Journal10.1007/s00778-013-0341-y23:2(201-226)Online publication date: 9-Nov-2013
  • (2012)Who tags what?Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment10.14778/2350229.23502705:11(1567-1578)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2012
  • (2012)Social tagging & folksonomies: Indexing, retrieving… and beyond?Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology10.1002/meet.2011.1450480106948:1(1-4)Online publication date: 11-Jan-2012

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