The effect of users' tagging motivation on the enlargement of digital educational resources metadata
Social tagging as an alternative way of characterizing educational resources. Users tagging motivation can affect the enlargement of metadata descriptions. A methodology proposed and applied to an existing LOR, namely OpenScienceResources. Describers produce tags that are significantly different from formal metadata. Describers outperformed categorizers by contributing new formal vocabulary terms.
educational resources social tagging user tagging motivation folksonomy evaluation methodology evaluation results