As any reader of this blog would know, there's quite a bit of interest in the utilize of tags as well as folksonomies on behalf of learning repositories. Yet, there isn’t that much scientific literature on the topic. (Please do mention references in the feedback here!)
That is why I am delighted as well as very proud to announce the Special Issue on Social Information Retrieval on behalf of Technology Enhanced Learning that Riina, Nikos as well as I co-edited on behalf of JoDI.
The issue grew out of SIRTEL07, a Workshop on Social Information Retrieval on behalf of Technology-Enhanced Learning we organized at ECTEL07. As we draw attention to in the introduction:
The first workshop gave impetus on behalf of a Special Issue of the Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) to present the state-of-the-art of this exciting new as well as emerging field. In addition to revised versions of the workshop papers, two other papers were invited from researchers who contribute actively to this field. After a rather demanding review process with three reviewers per submission as well as two review rounds, we were very happy to conclude with five brilliant papers that address several aspects of SIR techniques as well as their application within the context of Technology Enhanced Learning.
Enjoy!
(And did I draw attention to that feedback is welcome?)