Margaret E. Kipp and D. Grant Campbell. 'Patterns and inconsistencies in collaborative tagging systems: an examination of tagging practices'. In Proceedings of Annual General Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Austin, Texas (US).
"This paper analyzes the tagging patterns exhibited by users of del.icio.us, to assess how collaborative tagging supports and enhances traditional ways of classifying and indexing documents." (Abstract, accessed 2 January 2007).
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