Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems
Journal of Information Science
Exploring social annotations for the semantic web
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Improved annotation of the blogosphere via autotagging and hierarchical clustering
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Ontologies are us: A unified model of social networks and semantics
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
A comparison of social bookmarking with traditional search
ECIR'08 Proceedings of the IR research, 30th European conference on Advances in information retrieval
Concept modeling by the masses: folksonomy structure and interoperability
ER'06 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Conceptual Modeling
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The Web has developed as an enormous information resource. Especially in the last few years with the thriving of the socalled web2.0 services allowing user-generated content easily to be entered in -and shared by- typical web 2.0 databases. Bookmarking systems enable users to label their resources with tags, which in aggregation give rise to dynamic categorization schemes, i.e. folksonomies. Web querying through folksonomies presents an interesting potential in contrast to traditional search engines, such as the suggestion of relevant topics that may refine or even define the original search term. Both approaches are in wide use, each appreciated for their own qualities. However, it is possible for the methods to be used complementary, making use of the specific advantages of each of them. In this paper we specifically introduce the notions of tags and folksonomies and we present a method of using these notions in a tag based search technique. We discuss and elaborate results on the basis of preliminary experiments with our tag-based search engine.