Tags as keywords – comparison of the relative quality of tags and keywords
Sue Yeon Syn, Michael B. Spring · Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology · 2009
Abstract Tags assigned by users are considered to have potential in categorizing web resources despite the fact that they do not use a controlled vocabulary and are contributed by non‐experts. This study explores the potential of using tags to replace controlled vocabulary as a method of organizing web resources. Author‐assigned keywords and users‐assigned tags for a shared data collection are compared. The data was gathered from scientific papers that have both author‐assigned keywords and user‐assigned tags. Author‐assigned keywords and user‐assigned tags were compared using similarity measurements, classification systems, and clustering methods.