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Agenda
• Introduction
• Taxonomy
• Folksonomy
• Tagging in Folksonomy
• Visualizing Folksonomy
• Folksonomy and Semantic Web
• Metadata and Semantic Web
• Folksonomy Advantages
• Folksonomy Disadvantages
• Conclusion
Taxonomy
• One of the most common strategies for organizing content
• Only admin / authorized person can add / edit categorize the
content
• Use of taxonomy is not possible in websites with user generated
content
• Content is constantly changing and its not possible to have a
standalone taxonomy
• No single party can enforce taxonomy in whole user community
– Example, Wordpress blog categories.
– To overcome the disadvantages in Taxonomy, Folksonomy
introduced.
Folksonomy
Folksonomy became popular in 2004
Folksonomy is a characteristic of web 2.0
Folksonomy = Collective Tagging = Tagging = Social Tagging =
Social Indexing = Collaborative Tagging
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Visualizing Folksonomy
• Tag cloud – Way to visualize
tag in a Folksonomy.
• Tag clouds represents by
size, number of times the tag
applied to single item and
quality of content.
• Tag clouds are interactive
• Tags are hyperlinks thus
allows users to drill down on
the data.
• Delicious is the first
bookmarking site to
introduce tagging concept.
Folksonomy and Semantic Web
• Folksonomy intended to make a body of information
increasingly easy to search, discover, and navigate over
time
• Folksonomy hold a key in developing semantic web and
information retrieval system.
• Web content searchable through machine readable meta
datas. Not sure every web authors have added metadata in
their pages.
• Time consuming to learn and use