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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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Collective intelligenceSemantic Web

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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… 
2010
2010
Upper tag ontology for integrating social tagging data
Data integration and mediation have become central concerns of information technology over the past few decades. With the advent… 
2009
2009
Social Tagging in Query Expansion: A New Way for Personalized Web Search
Social networks and collaborative tagging systems are rapidly gaining popularity as primary means for sorting and sharing data… 
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… 
Review
2009
Review
2009
A brief survey of computational approaches in Social Computing
Web 2.0 technologies have brought new ways of connecting people in social networks for collaboration in various on-line… 
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
2008
Review
2008
Interaction in Virtual Archives: The Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections Next Generation Finding Aid
This article analyzes the design and provides a preliminary evaluation of an experimental finding aid incorporating social… 
2007
2007
Collaborative Tagging in Recommender Systems
This paper proposes a collaborative filtering method with user-created tags focusing on changes of web content and internet… 
2007
2007
Automatic tag recommendation for the web 2.0 blogosphere using collaborative tagging and hybrid ANN semantic structures
This paper proposes a novel approach to automatic tag recommendation for weblogs/blogs. It makes use of collective intelligence… 
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