Flickr and Democratic Indexing: dialogic approaches to indexing

摘要: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is two‐fold: to examine three models subject indexing (i.e. expert‐led indexing, author‐generated and user‐orientated indexing); compare contrast two approaches the theoretically‐based Democratic Indexing project, Flickr, a working system for describing photographs).Design/methodology/approach approach examining Flickr evaluative. limitations are described examples provided. approach, which authors believe offers method marshalling “free” user‐indexed archive provide useful retrieval functions, described.Findings examination both suggests that, despite Shirky's claim philosophical paradigm shifting social tagging, there residing doubt amongst information professionals that self‐organising systems can work without being some element control an...