Harvesting social knowledge from folksonomies

  • Authors:
  • Harris Wu;Mohammad Zubair;Kurt Maly

  • Affiliations:
  • Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA;Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA;Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the seventeenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Collaborative tagging systems, or folksonomies, have the potential of becoming technological infrastructure to support knowledge management activities in an organization or a society. There are many challenges, however. This paper presents designs that enhance collaborative tagging systems to meet some key challenges: community identification, ontology generation, user and document recommendation. Design prototypes, evaluation methodology and selected preliminary results are presented.