Boksomäromöjligatthitta?
En studie av de sociala taggarna i Stockholms stadsbiblioteks OPAC
The aim of this thesis is to, through an empirical study ofthe social tags in the City of Stockholm libraries? OPACwith critical discourse analysis, examine the social tags?linguistic design, usability, and communicative potential? all in relation to the context. It is a linguistic study andit is important to take into account that the tags are extremelyshort texts ? single-word-texts. My starting-pointis that the tags are a form of utility texts.What I find is that a clear majority of the tags are nounsand function as index terms, but that there are differencescompared to authorized index terms. The study showshow the tag-authors solve their contextual premises by forexample word-compositions. I find that a balance is importantbetween specific and general as the tags lack aparent-child or sibling semantic relationship. Compared totraditional knowledge organization, there is a consistentfeature of subjectivity in the tags. I see a fourth type oforganization in addition to cataloguing, classification, andindexing ? the personal comment. In the retrieval, the tagsare best suited for browsing. I also find that the social tagscould function as a complement to a controlled vocabulary,but not replace it.