Monday, May 28, 2007

Folksonomy in the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library

As a prized collection, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library benefits from sophisticated search tools. How about providing the opportunity for users to create and search social bookmarks, as another way to tap into this library? In addition to facilitating access in a new way, this would offer a research opportunity about the comparative benefits of searching pre-structured and post-structured vocabularies.

Once all this work is completed, our First Life may seem stale. So we should also hedge our bets and enter Second Life.