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Trends in Twitter Hashtag Applications: Design Features for Value-Added Dimensions to Future Library Catalogues

Chang, Hsia-Ching

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/34607

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Title
Trends in Twitter Hashtag Applications: Design Features for Value-Added Dimensions to Future Library Catalogues
Author(s)
Chang, Hsia-Ching
Issue Date
2012
Keyword(s)
  • Next-Generation Discovery and Access
  • Library Catalogs
Abstract
The Twitter hashtag is a unique tagging format linking Tweets to user-defined concepts. The aim of the paper is to describe various applications of Twitter hashtags and to determine the functional characteristics of each application. Twitter hashtags can assist in archiving twitter content, provide different visual representations of tweets, and permit grouping by categories and facets. This study seeks to examine the trends in Twitter hashtag features and how these may be applied as enhancements for next-generation library catalogues. For this purpose, Taylor’s value-added model is used as an analytical framework. The morphological box developed by Zwicky is used to synthesize functionalities of Twitter hashtag applications. And finally, included are recommendations for the design of hashtag-based valueadded dimensions for future library catalogues.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/34607
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2012.0024
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 2012 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 61 (1) Summer 2012: Next-Generation Discovery and Access in Library Catalogs PRIMARY
Library Trends 61 (1) Summer 2012: Next-Generation Discovery and Access in Library Catalogs. Edited by Kathryn La Barre.