SUBJECT HEADINGS, TAGS, AND BOOKMARKS IN INFORMATION REPRESENTATION

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN LIBRARIES AND THE ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN

Abstract

This study addresses the differences and similarities in the representation of information in The Hunger Games books, comparing the practices adopted by libraries with those observed in the general tags and markers of the fanfiction repository Archive of Our Own. The objective is to examine how the work is represented through subject headings in the catalogs of three public libraries and to compare this representation to the application of tags and bookmarks in the curated folksonomy updating process by the repository. The methodological procedures involve bibliographic and field research. The results indicate that the libraries use controlled vocabularies, although they present divergences among themselves. In the repository, general tags prioritize narrative expansion, while bookmarks function as affective records and personal archives, used to record individual reading experiences and user recommendations. It is concluded that the environments examined, although oriented towards favoring information retrieval, adopt specific information representation strategies, which suggests the need for hybrid models capable of integrating technical principles and social participation.