My master thesis is finished! I’ve made it available for download for everyone interested in hybrid folksonomy/ontology Web organization.
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Automated Ontology Structure in Folksonomy (.pdf, 3100 kb)
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to evaluate automated folksonomy refinement through algorithms, which constitutes a hybrid folksonomy/ontology Web organization. While in most contemporary literature folksonomy and…
Web 2.0 tagging systems like Flickr’s categorize the website’s content bottom-up.
The classification is powered by users applying their common sense and intuition; wisdom-of-the-crowd, resulting in a folk taxonomy of everything that is to be found in the Flickr database.
A folksonomy is contextual, ambigious, gradual, adaptive, easily accessible, open and flexible. A folksonomy connects with the reality of its…
On the blog on Last.FM you can access the Mainstream-O-Meter which is interesting if you consider the long tail (Anderson) theory. It becomes a ‘mainstream’ interest to have an obscure music interest to end up high in the ranking. This is making the long tail more visible but also more questionable.
This diary at Daily Kos confused me at first, because it was completely empty. No title, no text: there was nothing there. But looking at the various tags for the diary makes it clear why:
Justification for Iran War, Justification for IRAQ war, Faith-based diaries, Harry Reid’s Leadership, The Truth about 9-11, Cultists Only, John McCain Policy Map, Obama Madrassa Evidence, Rosemary Woods, 17 minutes of audio tape from the Nixon White House, Huckabee’s Missing Votes, fnord, WMDs, Impeachment Hearings, Subpoena Power, Checks and Balances, Congressional Oversight
I’ve finished a short piece on tagging as a form of classification, called Getting Things Done?
Why do tomorrow what can be put off until the day after?
I’ve been reading some classic texts on categorization and how the issue has been dealt with on the Web …
Tag clouds are a nice way to visualize the content tags of a website. Flickr started this trend when they displayed a “All-time most popular tags” tag cloud on their front page. The size of the tags in the tag cloud is usually relative (more frequently used tags are displayed in a larger font). In this way you can quickly…
