Folksonomies: a bottom-up social categorization system

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Folksonomies <ul><ul><li>A bottom-up social categorization system </li></ul></ul>

Definition <ul><li>Etymology: “ Folk ” + “ Taxonomy ” </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Folk = done by people </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><...

Features <ul><li>Bottom-up (Created by Users) </li></ul><ul><li>No structure </li></ul><ul><li>No fixed vocabulary </li></...

What’s new? Collaboration <ul><li>You can tag items owned by others </li></ul><ul><li>Instant feedback </li></ul><ul><ul>...

Benefits <ul><li>Cheap and easy way to classify </li></ul><ul><li>Capable to adapt very quickly to changes and user needs ...

Limits <ul><li>Ambiguity </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Polisemy (same tag used with different meaning) </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>...

Taxonomy vs Folksonomy <ul><li>Hierarchical </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Parent/child & sibling relationship </li></ul></ul><ul...

The old way creates a tree The new rakes leaves together

Ontology <ul><li>Differ from taxonomic approach </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Not just “stamp collecting” </li></ul></ul><ul><ul>...

Ontology <ul><li>An enabling technology for information sharing and manipulation </li></ul><ul><ul><li>XML allows users ...

Folsonomy vs Ontology <ul><li>Domain </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Large corpus </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Informal categories <...

What is the best choice? <ul><li>Folksonomies are useful when all that is needed is the ability to link items to topics <...

Research Directions <ul><li>Combination of two distinct approaches </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Hybrid System </li></ul></ul><ul>...

Folktology: Folk Ontology <ul><li>A folksonomy combined with an ontology </li></ul><ul><ul><li>users could propose or modi...

Tags analysis <ul><li>Analyzing tags distribution </li></ul><ul><ul><li>To understand if it converges or it does not </li>...

Some hypothetical domains <ul><li>Tagging of Web Services </li></ul><ul><li>Tagging of process tasks </li></ul><ul><li>Tag...

References <ul><li>Mathes, A., Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata . Comp...

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