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"How do you document real life when real life's getting more like fiction each day?" --Jonathan Larson
Answer: Pictures!
My interests include the study of metadata and its importance to information discovery and retrieval, the study of how typographical errors hinder effective information retrieval, and the weaknesses of keyword (or full text) searching, especially when compared to metadata-enabled searching.
Metadata means data about data, so tags, like the tags we use in Flickr, are a type of metadata, because they are data (the tags) about data (the pictures). Within the past couple years the term "folksonomy" has been used to describe tags that are assigned popularly, rather than by professionals (like me; in my job as a cataloger I assign Library of Congress subject headings to bibliographic records for books).
Uncontrolled tags don't work very well because they are inconsistent, wrong, and often missing.
To see my CV, go here [PDF].
I am an academic librarian at Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver in Denver, Colorado, USA.
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- alamw12 654 photos, 33 members
- Deviled & Stuffed Eggs 118 photos, 49 members
- Aurora Colorado 95 photos, 27 members
- Denver Public Art 44 photos, 4 members
- ALAannual11 2,518 photos, 178 members
- Colorado.gov Photos - Recreation 21 photos, 27 members
- Colorado.gov Photos - Landscape 277 photos, 71 members
- ALAMW11 575 photos, 129 members
- Old Commercial Blocks 3,644 photos, 229 members
- Your Best Shot 2010 20,216 photos, 24,754 members
- ChiefsCoalition.com Flickr Group 391 photos, 75 members
- The Indianapolis Colts!!! 1,168 photos, 202 members
- Snow Plows 19,932 photos, 690 members
- ALAnnual10 1,829 photos, 164 members
- ALA Midwinter 2010 683 photos, 140 members
- Your Best Shot 2009 16,559 photos, 20,198 members
- NFL NETWORK 2,791 photos, 178 members
- Pittsburgh Steelers 2,341 photos, 742 members
- Googie, Anyone? 3,345 photos, 527 members
- New England Patriot Fans 938 photos, 227 members
- Dallas Cowboys 1,551 photos, 384 members
- Colorado Historical Group 2,744 photos, 102 members
- ALAannual2009 801 photos, 173 members
- National Register of Historic Places 32,055 photos, 695 members
- Making Cycling Dangerous 611 photos, 105 members
- Denver Fire Dept., Colo (DFD) 1,045 photos, 70 members
- Pure Nature Animals : (INVITE ONLY) 7 photos, 2 members
- Wheat Ridge Colorado 358 photos, 26 members
- One Beer Bottle 4,905 photos, 753 members
- ALAMidwinter2009 706 photos, 137 members
- Paths (Caminhos) POST , COMMENT & INVITE PLEASE 64,514 photos, 7,348 members
- Douglas County Colorado 248 photos, 23 members
- hospitals 2,690 photos, 493 members
- RTD Denver 217 photos, 19 members
- Veterinary Staff and Care 623 photos, 118 members
- Santa Clarita 4,138 photos, 185 members
- Canyon High School 164 photos, 23 members
- Vancouver 132,173 photos, 6,565 members
- Denver Police Department 174 photos, 38 members
- DNC 2008 1,635 photos, 81 members
- Taxidermy 5,130 photos, 790 members
- Silly Sleeping Sibes 383 photos, 106 members
- Mascots Around The World 761 photos, 102 members
- Light Rail Vehicles Public Transportation etc.. 3,878 photos, 119 members
- Didgeridoo 307 photos, 114 members
- Columbines 809 photos, 220 members
- There Be A Storm A Brewin! 35,360 photos, 4,216 members
- Favorites: 10 48,811 photos, 8,421 members
- Worldwide Ship Spotters (WSS) 59,489 photos, 1,693 members
- The Democratic Party 2,133 photos, 455 members
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- Name:
- Jeffrey Beall
- Joined:
- March 2005
- Currently:
- Denver, Colorado, USA
- I am:
- Male and Single
- Occupation:
- Librarian
- Email:
- jeffrey.beall [at] ucdenver.edu














