[ SECRET POST #2351 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2350 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 113 secrets from Secret Submission Post #336.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[erinptah]

The founders/administration aren't stupid, and nobody's denying that they care about preserving fandom history and being flexible enough to accommodate whatever changes fandom makes in the future.

And there are lots of reasons to love the AO3, no question!

But completely uncontrolled tags, the way they're being used now, are not a goldmine for metadata. If you have a hundred different strings all expressing the same concept, but not in standardized or easily-searchable words, there's no way to get any useful metadata out of that except to go through by hand and manually link everything by meaning.

Yi and Chan (2009) did something similar for Delicious tags, where they tried to come up with an automated way of analyzing the tags on 4,552 websites. They started by limiting their analysis to "the subset of all the tags that were employed by at least two different people for the same web pages" (877). That got them down to 409 tags -- which were still not easy to analyze, and some of the shortcuts they took make my teeth itch a little. Including everybody's totally idiosyncratic individual tags would have made the data unmanageable.

The AO3 may be run by academics, but it sure isn't run by library scientists.