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“Folkschemas”, nice word. I guess this is something I am trying to do with StYLiD (Structure Your own Linked Data).
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Linkexplorer.net – experimental structured tagging
Linkexplorer.net – experimental structured tagging
The Linkexplorer organizes tagging by defining various relations between tags. This is similar to the approach used by BibSonomy. But there are different types of named relations (eg part-of, related-to, etc). This greatly helps to organize tags. However, I think tagging is quite uncontrolled and it will be difficult to have usable visualizations of relations between huge amounts of tags. Further, I am not sure if it should be called structured tagging. Some people use the term “structured tagging” to refer to structured metadata.
Folksonomy :: vanderwal.net
Folksonomy :: vanderwal.net
Thomas Vander Wal writes about Folksonomy.
Concept Modeling by the Masses: Folksonomy Structure and Interoperability
Concept Modeling by the Masses: Folksonomy Structure and InteroperabilityAbstract
The recent popularity of social software in the wake of the much hyped “Web2.0” has resulted in a flurry of activity around folksonomies, the emergent systems of classification that result from making public the individual users’ personal classifications in the form of simple free form “tags”. Several approaches have emerged in the analysis of these folksonomies including mathematical approaches for clustering and identifying affinities, social theories about cultural factors in tagging, and cognitive theories about their mental underpinnings. In this paper we argue that the most useful analysis is in terms of mental phenomena since naive classification is essentially a cognitive task. We then describe a method for extracting structural properties of free form user tags, based on the linguistic properties of the tags. This reveals some deep insights in the conceptual modeling behavior of naive users. Finally we explore the usefulness of the latent structural properties of free form “tag clouds” for interoperability between folksonomies from different services.
Keywords: Web2.0, folksonomy, interoperability, tagging, concept modeling.
Network Properties of Folksonomies
BibSonomy::bibtex::Network Properties of Folksonomies
This is also a study about the network properties of folksonomy.
Folksonomy as a Complex Network
CiteULike: Folksonomy as a Complex Network
This is a study about the properties of the folksonomy network formed by connecting tags annotating the same resource.
Folksonomy is an emerging technology that works to classify the information over WWW through tagging the bookmarks, photos or other web-based contents. It is understood to be organized by every user while not limited to the authors of the contents and the professional editors. This study surveyed the folksonomy as a complex network. The result indicates that the network, which is composed of the tags from the folksonomy, displays both properties of small world and scale-free. However, the statistics only shows a local and static slice of the vast body of folksonomy which is still evolving
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