Collaborative Tagging

Collaborative tagging seems to be something that is relatively unknown or unused by most of the class with an exception made for people tagging in photos on Facebook. That aside, the usefulness of collaborative tagging in general was not in question. Collaborative tagging allows individuals to mark content they see (be it images, videos or text) as they see fit. So if someone posts a video of a Habs game they saw, tagging would allow them to use keywords such as Hockey to identify the video. Furthering that if another user saw the clip they could add Montreal to further help identify the clip. There can of course be a negative side to tagging just like anything else. For example if another user who did not like Montreal wanted to confuse people, he could tag the clip Garbage. Of course this collaborative process relies on the community being vigilant to clear up this kind of vandalism. This can create or grow a community around the artifact (the data) that may not have normally been there