Cataloging Futures

Faviki: a controlled vocabulary tagging tool

Yesterday, a cataloger friend of mine mentioned this tagging tool: Faviki, which according to its blog is:

A social bookmarking tool that allows you to tag webpages you want to remember using Wikipedia terms. This means that everybody uses the same names for tags from the world's largest collection of knowledge. [emphasis added]

What Faviki calls "common tagging" is a move away from free tagging to the use of a common vocabulary. Looks like the web is turning us all into catalogers :)

Controlled Vocabulary website

Just found this cool website: ControlledVocabulary.com.

David Riecks founded ControlledVocabulary.com as a resource to help others learn how best to build controlled vocabulary lists, thesauri, and keyword hierarchies for describing images in databases. He has been involved in many recent standards initiatives as well as being a featured speaker at industry events such as PhotoPlus Expo, the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit, and the first and second International PhotoMetadata Conferences.

New authority control blog

You'll want to check on this new blog on authority control, Collocate and Disambiguate:

Created by Lois Reibach, this blog will discuss news and trends in authority control, and new uses of authority data. Developments in controlled vocabularies will also be covered.

My friend, Lois, is one of the smartest catalogers I know, hands down. She has always kept up on cataloging trends. So, I'm really glad she started this blog!