WWW2007 Workshop on Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization (12 February 2007 / 8 May 2007)

The WWW2007 Workshop on Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization will be held in Banff (Canada).

We hope to bring together researchers as well as practitioners to explore social, design and computational aspects of tagging and social information organization. The topic space is wide, but the following are some of the areas of special interest:

• Semantics. Ontology and hierarchy creation; Semantics issues in cross-system tagging; Standardization efforts.
• Cognition. The cognitive aspects of categorization; Organizing and retrieving tagged objects.
• Social networks. Social sharing; Relationship building; Ratings systems and collaborative filtering; Identity management self-presentation; Tagging in blogs, wikis, etc.
• Usability and Interfaces. Search navigation, browsing and filtering; Novice users and tags; Evaluating existing tagging environments and user behavior; Motivations for tagging.
• Multimedia. Tagging multiple kinds of media; tagging across media types; Tagging at varying scales; Non-text-based annotations and tags.