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*** Apologies for Receipt of Duplicate Postings*** Scholarly Tagging Projects and Initiatives? Colleagues/ I am greatly interested in Any and All current or planned initiatives that involve the Folksonomic Tagging of **Scholarly** articles, preprints, manuscripts, documents, or Other Publications by **Readers**. As defined by Wikipedia, "Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords. More colloquially, this refers to a group of people cooperating spontaneously to organize information into categories, typically using categories or tags on pages, or semantic links with types that evolve without much central control." [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy ] The inspiration for my query is the ColLib project [ http:// collib.info/ ] - "the collaborative platform for organizing Open Access materials in Library & Information Science (LIS)" developed by Magnus Enger. As noted, "colLib harvests metadata-records from OAI- PMH-compliant repositories and enables manual 'tagging' of these records to cluster them by subject or other meaningful categories. Tags are represented by pages in a wiki, that can be annotated with links to related tags, external links and any other text deemed relevant." [WOW: A WIKI! ]:-) And Yes, I am aware of Connotea [ http://www.connotea.org ] [http://www.connotea.org/about ] BTW: I highly recommend a Most Interesting Article "Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular Engagement Exploring Collaborative Annotation to Encourage Interaction with Museum Collections" by David Bearman and Jennifer Trant from the September 2005 issue of _D-Lib Magazine_ [ http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/bearman/09bearman.html ] Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 [log in to unmask]