[Web4lib] Next new thing?

[Elizabeth mckenty]

Everything old is ever new again. I have to point out it was F. W. Lancaster 
who published "Toward Paperless Information
Systems<http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/309df173a2c90f17.html>
"--http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/309df173a2c90f17.html-- in my 
young adulthood (1978). Still, I am surrounded by paper at home and at work. 
But I am not complaining, much.

Wearing my former indexer/abstracter/cataloguer hat, I concur that 
folksonomies are not new. The LITA Top Tech Trends crew pretty much 
dismissed them. See here <http://litablog.org/?cat=6>--
http://litablog.org/?cat=6-- for summaries. Recently reported problems with 
tag spam will not help. Collaborative tools, including wikis, are where it 
is at, IMHO. 

Lisle McKenty

On 7/15/05, Alec Sonsteby <sonsteby at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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
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