[Web4lib] Next new thing?

[Alec Sonsteby]

Ryan Eby wrote:
> Don't forget tagging/folksonomies. Can't really say any of this is
> "the next thing" since it's already here.

And, the concept has been around for years. F.W. Lancaster, in his 
famous text, Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice, discusses 
and cites research into user indexing (which is essentially "tagging") 
from the 90s. His book is a nice corrective to a lot of tech hype, as he 
shows that a lot of what is "new" in the Web world has been known by 
librarians and information scientists for years.

Alec