Folksonomies And Complex Works

Slide 1: Folksonomies and Complex Works A Primer By Akshat Trivedi

Slide 2: Folksonomies • Folk – The general user (enthusiast) – Uses the power of crowds – Use hundreds of enthusiasts instead of 2-3 experts – Save money – Easily adaptable and constantly up-to-date • Nomies – Nomenclatures, tags, meta-data – Contextual information addition – Tagging data • Abstract sources • Non textual data

Slide 3: A Visual Explanation

Slide 4: Why we need this • Amount of information is not getting any smaller – People are taking more photos, videos, etc • Scientific publications (journals and patent sources) are becoming more complex and difficult to locate via regular searches • Experts are not always available (or willing) for categorizing scientific data • Human generated / curated tags add reliability to databases / search engines • Users categorize this information anyway

Slide 5: Examples of Effective Folksonomies • Go Pub Med • ChemSpider • Of course – Wikipedia, Wikipatents