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Folksonomy

Known as: Ethnoclassification, Folksonomic, Social tagging 
A folksonomy is a system in which users apply public tags to online items, typically to aid them in re-finding those items. This can give rise to a… 
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2014
2014
Evaluation and Comparison of Discovery Tools: An Update
Abstract: Selection and implementation of a web scale Discovery tool by The Rider University Libraries (RUL) in the 2011-2012… 
Review
2011
Review
2011
Social search: A taxonomy of, and a user-centred approach to, social web search
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the notion of social search as a new concept, drawing upon the… 
2010
2010
Ecological Acoustics Perspective for Content-Based Retrieval of Environmental Sounds
In this paper we present a method to search for environmental sounds in large unstructured databases of user-submitted audio… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
A probabilistic model for personalized tag prediction
Social tagging systems have become increasingly popular for sharing and organizing web resources. Tag prediction is a common… 
2010
2010
The topic-perspective model for social tagging systems
In this paper, we propose a new probabilistic generative model, called Topic-Perspective Model, for simulating the generation… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends
The rapid increase of Internet-based social networking sites has brought attention to the social software phenomenon and… 
2009
2009
Ontologies and Software Engineering
The chapter analyzes the state of the art in the use of ontologies for various software engineering tasks. The chapter starts… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Tree, funny, to_read, google: what are tags supposed to achieve? a comparative analysis of user keywords for different digital resource types
Social tagging systems have become increasingly popular over the past years. Users' tagging practices have been little studied… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
Tag Mediated Society with SCOT Ontology
In this paper we give an overview of the int.ere.st for a social tagging, bookmarking, and sharing service. It is based on the… 
2006
2006
Understanding Navigability of Social Tagging Systems
Given the rise in popularity of social tagging systems, it seems only natural to ask how efficient is the organically evolved… 
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