Social Tagging and Secondary School Libraries

This chapter examines the Archive of Our Own (AO3) tagging system and backend design to determine how its successful elements can be implemented in a secondary school library setting. Specifically, it looks at social tagging on the platform to evaluate how effective a collaborative tag-based search system could be as a supplement to a traditional school library catalog. The author conducted field research and created an online library tagging template for school use. Google Forms are also used to generate content for the platform, which is designed for both librarian and student user groups. This work was carried out throughout the 2019-2020 school year. The author found that community care, subject knowledge, and “tag wrangling” are the key elements of the AO3 that can potentially be leveraged in a secondary school library environment to promote student engagement and reading for pleasure.

The access(ibility) of films in artist-run centres

This thesis considers how artist-run centres are creating access to their film collections by using the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) as its case study. It looks at current literature on accessibility, including controlled vocabularies, keywords, folksonomies, and social tagging, and how two other institutions- Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA), located in Paris, France and IsumaTV, located in Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada- are currently creating access to their film collections to discover how different forms of accessibility are being used in real time. It looks at how the CFMDC is currently creating access to its film collection and finally, recommends the ways accessibility at an artist-run centre could be improved to help the artist-run centre reach a wider audience, help the researcher in the search and retrieval process, and to keep the film object itself accessible.

The access(ibility) of films in artist-run centres

This thesis considers how artist-run centres are creating access to their film collections by using the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) as its case study. It looks at current literature on accessibility, including controlled vocabularies, keywords, folksonomies, and social tagging, and how two other institutions- Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA), located in Paris, France and IsumaTV, located in Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada- are currently creating access to their film collections to discover how different forms of accessibility are being used in real time. It looks at how the CFMDC is currently creating access to its film collection and finally, recommends the ways accessibility at an artist-run centre could be improved to help the artist-run centre reach a wider audience, help the researcher in the search and retrieval process, and to keep the film object itself accessible.

Tag's Depth-Based Expert Profiling Using a Topic Modeling Technique

Expert finding and expert profiling are two important tasks for organizations, researchers, and work seekers. This importance can also be seen in online communities especially with the explosion of social networks. Expert finding on one hand addresses the task of finding the right person with the appropriate knowledge or skills. Expert profiling on the other hand gives a concise and meaningful description of a candidate expert. This paper focuses on what social tagging can bring to improve expert finding and profiling. A novel expertise indicator that models and assesses an expert based on the expert's tagging activities is proposed. First, tags are used as interest indicator to build candidate's profiles; then, Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm (LDA) is used to construct the tags distribution over topics by exploiting the tag's semantic characteristics. Topics of interest are then filtered using tag's depth. The latter is finally used as the expertise indicator. Experiments performed on the stack overflow dataset show the accuracy of the proposed approach.