I just applied for a course in Informetrics. It’s being held in Umeå (Sweden) and are in NorsLIS auspice.

The course features many well-known names in the field of informetrics. My supervisor Jesper Schneider are going to lecure there, as well as Birger larsen. Birger has been helping us a lot in the set up of our pilot study.

Informetrics can be used to measure tags, users and information objects, and I hope I will get some new insights in handling data from folksonomies. Applying informetric (webometric) methods on data from folksonomies are a brand new and very exciting field. My primary focus right now is on my pilot study of del.icio.us, I will later make a post of the findings. I will have a lot of hard data ready for the course in Umeå - data to play with