Folksonomies-Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata

By Adam Mathes. 2004

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Exploring folksonomy for personalized search (2008, background): “In [17] , the authors investigated two of the most famous folksonomy service providers Del.”
Information Retrieval in Folksonomies: Search and Ranking (2006, background): “Among the rare exceptions are [5] and [8] who provide good overviews of social bookmarking tools with special emphasis on folksonomies, and [9] who discusses strengths and limitations of folksonomies.”
HT06, tagging paper, taxonomy, Flickr, academic article, to read (2006, background): “Recently, the aggregation and semantic aspects of tags have been discussed and debated at length [16].”
The Transformation of the Web: How Emerging Communities Shape the Information we Consume (2006, background): “In traditional “editor-based” systems, professionals assign metadata based on a well-defined taxonomy and a set of guidelines (e.g., [Mathes 2004]).”
Semantic Wikipedia (2006, background): “Folksonomies [16] are collaborative tagging or classification systems that freely use on-the-fly labels to tag certain web resources like websites (del.”
Web Data Extraction, Applications and Techniques: A Survey (2012, background): “, how do person expand their lexicon on the basis of their interactions with other persons) [86]?”
The folksonomy tag cloud: when is it useful? (2008, background): “[12, 13] Tagging services sidestep this issue of author versus expert categorization, opting instead for user created metadata [14].”
Exploring place through user-generated content: Using Flickr tags to describe city cores (2010, background): “Particularly for tags with low frequencies, issues were identi ﬁ ed with respect to quality and idiosyncrasy, as is re ﬂ ected in the long tail distribution with 56.5% of tags being used only once, a typical property of tagged images [26,34].”
Optimizing web search using social annotations (2007, background): “2 Research on Social Annotations Existing research on social annotations includes “folksonomy” [2, 24], visualization [18], emergent semantics [25], semantic web [36], enterprise search [23] etc.”
Exploring social annotations for the semantic web (2006, background): “[21] cited some examples of ambiguous tags and synonymous tags in Delicious.”
Twitinfo: aggregating and visualizing microblogs for event exploration (2011, background): “Info builds up a folksonomy of labeled events over time [11, 18].”
The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems (2005, background): “In some sites, collaborative tagging is also known as “folksonomy,” short for “folk taxonomy;” however, there is some debate whether this term is accurate (Mathes 2004), and so we avoid using it here.”