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Longitudinal Analysis of Tag Structure in Del.icio.us

Guo, Lijiang; Jacob, Elin K.; George, Nicolas

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Title
Longitudinal Analysis of Tag Structure in Del.icio.us
Author(s)
  • Guo, Lijiang
  • Jacob, Elin K.
  • George, Nicolas
Issue Date
2009-02-08
Keyword(s)
  • Tags
  • Tagging
  • Folksonomies
  • Network folksonomies
  • System folksonomies
  • Social bookmarking systems
  • del.icio.us.com
Abstract
This paper describes a three-level structure of folksonomies that accounts for the aggregation of tags in a social bookmarking system and describes the results of a preliminary longitudinal analysis of user-assigned tags collected from del.idio.us.com for the period 2005-2007. Results of this analysis indicate that evolving community consensus on the meanings of tags can lead to the emergence of domain vocabularies that can be useful for retrieving domain resources.
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text
Language
en
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