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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 120 photos, 50 members
- Aurora Colorado 102 photos, 27 members
- Denver Public Art 45 photos, 4 members
- ALAannual11 2,519 photos, 180 members
- Colorado.gov Photos - Recreation 21 photos, 27 members
- Colorado.gov Photos - Landscape 273 photos, 70 members
- ALAMW11 575 photos, 130 members
- Old Commercial Blocks 3,745 photos, 233 members
- Your Best Shot 2010 19,998 photos, 24,444 members
- ChiefsCoalition.com Flickr Group 403 photos, 77 members
- The Indianapolis Colts!!! 1,174 photos, 202 members
- Snow Plows 20,837 photos, 698 members
- ALAnnual10 1,829 photos, 164 members
- ALA Midwinter 2010 683 photos, 139 members
- Your Best Shot 2009 16,389 photos, 20,020 members
- NFL NETWORK 2,861 photos, 182 members
- Pittsburgh Steelers 2,354 photos, 752 members
- Googie, Anyone? 3,424 photos, 526 members
- New England Patriot Fans 956 photos, 227 members
- Dallas Cowboys 1,562 photos, 385 members
- Colorado Historical Group 2,815 photos, 106 members
- ALAannual2009 801 photos, 172 members
- National Register of Historic Places 33,618 photos, 721 members
- Making Cycling Dangerous 623 photos, 108 members
- Denver Fire Dept., Colo (DFD) 1,140 photos, 70 members
- Pure Nature Animals : (INVITE ONLY) 7 photos, 2 members
- Wheat Ridge Colorado 359 photos, 26 members
- One Beer Bottle 4,893 photos, 751 members
- ALAMidwinter2009 706 photos, 136 members
- Paths (Caminhos) POST , COMMENT & INVITE PLEASE 68,228 photos, 7,449 members
- Douglas County Colorado 261 photos, 24 members
- hospitals 2,889 photos, 509 members
- RTD Denver 215 photos, 18 members
- Veterinary Staff and Care 639 photos, 122 members
- Santa Clarita 4,240 photos, 186 members
- Canyon High School 164 photos, 23 members
- Vancouver 138,040 photos, 6,662 members
- Denver Police Department 169 photos, 38 members
- DNC 2008 1,635 photos, 81 members
- Taxidermy 5,227 photos, 808 members
- Silly Sleeping Sibes 399 photos, 106 members
- Mascots Around The World 806 photos, 107 members
- Light Rail Vehicles Public Transportation etc.. 4,595 photos, 121 members
- Didgeridoo 310 photos, 116 members
- Columbines 865 photos, 232 members
- There Be A Storm A Brewin! 37,312 photos, 4,323 members
- Favorites: 10 51,164 photos, 8,496 members
- Worldwide Ship Spotters (WSS) 62,784 photos, 1,711 members
- The Democratic Party 2,115 photos, 454 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