Ammonnz's connotea list of tagging stuff

Folksonomies have the potential to add much value to public library catalogues by enabling clients to: store, maintain, and organize items of interests in the catalogue using their own tags. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the tags that constitute folksonomies are structured.

Analyzes the potential contributions that Web 2.0 concepts could make to further the development of the semantic web.

Article about Web 2.0 developments and how such might be integrated with existing information management systems.

Article about the importance of classification in the network world of digital information.

"Tagging receives criticism from library circles for lacking some of the benefits a predefined controlled vocabulary offers. The primary arguments are that tagging doesn’t offer synonym control or distinguish between two meanings of a word. Interestingly, the criticisms given generally don’t cover another, more powerful, feature of controlled vocabularies also lacking in tagging systems—known relationships between terms."