Folksonomy

Right, so I had trouble remembering to constantly update my reference manager at CiteULike. This is mainly because knowing what articles we had to read already, I found and downloaded all of them at the beginning of the semester. If I had downloaded them on a weekly basis then I might have used it more, but I'm still skeptical of it. I also saved the articles to my Google Scholar library, maybe if there was some sort of plugin to my browser I would be more likely to use it?

I did tag all of the articles I read in my blog posts here and for the articles that I have in my CiteULike reference manager I followed much of the same process. I tagged the last name of the author(s), knowledge management, and then whatever came to mind for that particular article. So for the articles talking about Web 2.0 and KM, then I would (obviously) tag Web 2.0. This system seems viable, but the problem is it would work better if I had many articles like Professor Burns does in his library. In a large library, tagging everything as KM would allow me to pull up all those and then look at the tags of those KM articles to further clarify which article I am looking for. However, since my library was relatively small then it seemed kind of silly to tag everything as knowledge management when all of my articles are KM related. Of course, if I do get into the habit of using CuL or another reference manager, then as my library grows the more relevant and needed my tagging system will be!

Here is a link to my tags on CiteULike.