Statistical properties of inter-arrival times distribution in social tagging systems

Authors:
Andrea Capocci;Andrea Baldassarri;Vito D.P. Servedio;Vittorio Loreto
Affiliations:
University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Rome, Italy;University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Rome, Italy;University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Rome, Italy;University "La Sapienza" of Rome, Rome, Italy
Venue:
Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Folksonomies provide a rich source of data to study social patterns taking place on the World Wide Web. Here we study the temporal patterns of users' tagging activity. We show that the statistical properties of inter-arrival times between subsequent tagging events cannot be explained without taking into account correlation in users' behaviors. This shows that social interaction in collaborative tagging communities shapes the evolution of folksonomies. A consensus formation process involving the usage of a small number of tags for a given resources is observed through a numerical and theoretical analysis of some well-known folksonomy datasets.