An assessment of tag presentation techniques

TLDR

Tagging has emerged as a new metadata creation approach with the rise of social bookmarking. The study evaluates tag presentation techniques to investigate how different presentation properties affect tag usage. The authors assess presentation properties such as alphabetization and font size. The study finds that factors like alphabetization and font size influence users' ease of finding and using tags.

Abstract

With the growth of social bookmarking a new approach for metadata creation called tagging has emerged. In this paper we evaluate the use of tag presentation techniques. The main goal of our evaluation is to investigate the effect of some of the different properties that can be utilized in presenting tags e.g. alphabetization, using larger fonts etc. We show that a number of these factors can affect the ease with which users can find tags and use the tools for presenting tags to users.