Employing Organizational Context within a Collaborative Tagging System

• US 20090164267A1
• Filed: 12/21/2007
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Zurko, Mary Ellen, Banatwala, Mustansir
• Granted Patent: US 8,819,066 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24573 using data annotations, e.g. user-defined metadata
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services

Abstract

A computer-implemented method of employing organizational context within a collaborative tagging system can include receiving at least one tag for an artifact from a user, determining at least one attribute of the user, and storing a tag record including the tag, the attribute of the user, and an association of the tag with the artifact.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of employing organizational context within a collaborative tagging system, the method comprising:

receiving at least one tag for an artifact from a user;

determining at least one attribute of the user; and

storing a tag record comprising the tag, the attribute of the user, and an association of the tag with the artifact.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining at least one attribute comprises determining an identity of the user.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, further comprising:

determining a subset of tags of the tagging system according to the identity of the user; and

presenting the subset of tags to the user, wherein the tag for the artifact is selected from the subset of tags.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining at least one attribute comprises determining a security level associated with the user.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, further comprising:

determining a subset of tags of the tagging system according to the security level of the user; and

presenting the subset of tags to the user, wherein the tag for the artifact is selected from the subset of tags.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein determining at least one attribute comprises determining organizational information of the user.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, further comprising:

determining a subset of tags of the tagging system according to the organizational information of the user; and

presenting the subset of tags to the user, wherein the tag for the artifact is selected from the subset of tags.

8. A computer-implemented method of employing organizational context within a collaborative tagging system, the method comprising:

receiving a query for a tag within the collaborative tagging system, wherein the query specifies at least one attribute of the tag and a selected artifact;

determining tag records that match the query; and

outputting at least a portion of each tag record that matches the query.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, further comprising selecting the attribute to be an item of organizational information relating to a user that created the tag or that assigned the tag to an artifact.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, further comprising selecting the attribute to be an identity of a user.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, further comprising selecting the attribute to be a security level of the user.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, further comprising:

selecting the attribute to be at least one of an item of organizational information; and

automatically filtering the tag records that match the query by removing matching tag records having security requirements that exceed a security level of the user.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein outputting further comprises presenting each tag matching the query and a user identify associated with the tag.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein outputting further comprises presenting each tag matching the query and a count, for each tag, indicating a number of users that associated that tag with the selected artifact.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein a plurality of tags match the query and at least two of the plurality of tags comprise a selected attribute with a different value for the selected attribute, wherein outputting further comprises:

presenting each of the plurality of tags; and

visually indicating the selected attribute and the value of the selected attribute for each of the plurality of tags.

20. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the computer-usable medium further comprises:

computer-usable program code that receives a query within the collaborative tagging system, wherein the query specifies at least one attribute of a tag and a selected artifact;

computer-usable program code that determines tag records that match the query; and

computer-usable program code that outputs at least a portion of each tag record that matches the query.

16. A computer program product comprising a computer-usable medium comprising computer-usable program code that employs organizational context within a collaborative tagging system, the computer-usable medium comprising:

computer-usable program code that receives at least one tag for an artifact from a user;

computer-usable program code that determines at least one attribute of the user; and

computer-usable program code that stores a tag record comprising the tag, the attribute of the user, and an association of the tag with the artifact.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the computer-usable program code that determines at least one attribute comprises computer-usable program code that determines an identity of the user.

18. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the computer-usable program code that determines at least one attribute comprises computer-usable program code that determines a security level associated with the user.

19. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the computer-usable program code that determines at least one attribute comprises computer-usable program code that determines organizational information of the user.