Folksonomies – Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata
This paper examines user-generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification. Metadata – data about data – allows systems to collocate related information, and helps users find relevant information…..
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Folksonomies – Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata
SCIS Schools Catalogue Information Service
SCIS Schools Catalogue Information Service – Partnership, Educational Lending Right (ELR), About ScOT
The Schools Online Thesaurus project is a joint venture between Curriculum Corporation, The Le@rning Federation and education.au limited to develop a thesaurus for describing the subjects of online curricula content in the Australasian K–12 education sector.
The Le@rning Federation will use the Schools Online Thesaurus, or ScOT, to provide subject terms to online curriculum content and education.au limited to provide a controlled subject vocabulary for EdNA Online.
Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags?
Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags?
A folksonomy is a type of distributed classification system. It is usually created by a group of individuals, typically the resource users. Users add tags to online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks and text. These tags are then shared and sometimes refined. A general review of social bookmarking tools, one popular use area of folksonomies, was given in the April edition of D-Lib [1]. In the article the authors elaborate on the approach taken by social classification systems and the motivators behind tagging. They write, “…tags are just one kind of metadata and are not a replacement for formal classification systems such as Dublin Core, MODS, etc…. Rather, they are a supplemental means to organise information and order search results.”
Co-Browse
People visit the virtual world of the World Wide Web but do not see other visitors visiting the same web location. The proposed approach, also called collaborative web browsing, is an attempt to enhance the web browser to show web visitors. An experimental browser extension for the Microsoft Internet Explorer, called Co-Browse, has been developed for the purpose. This shows visitors on any page at any instant and allows communication with them. Normally, people sharing similar interests or having the same problem or quest visit the same locations. Communities would foster on the web facilitating better utilization, searching and sharing of information resources. This could be introduced as a global communication technology and an instant media. The work can also prove to be a powerful tool for analysis of visitors on any site. It would also be possible to search people around the vicinity of any web page. As we can see public conversation on sites, this may find application in market and customer trend analysis. The technology may also be used in practical applications like virtual shopping and remote learning. The system has client-server architecture and uses the Component Object Model (COM) technology.
A Novel Approach for the Utilization and Enhancement of ICT using the Web.
Presented on the 4th National Conference on Science and Technology organized by RONAST(Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology). Kathmandu, Nepal, March 23-26, 2004
Keywords: browser extension, Co-Browse, COM, collaborative browsing, visitor analysis
Authors: Aman Shakya, Archana Shrestha, Arun Timalsina
Here is the full project report.
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