Freedom and Restraint: Tags, Vocabularies and Ontologies
Lawrence, K. Faith and schraefel, m. c. (2006) Freedom and Restraint: Tags, Vocabularies and Ontologies. In, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, Damascus, Syria, 24 - 28 Apr 2006.
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The benefit of metadata is widely recognized. However, the nature of that information and the method of production remains a topic of some debate. This division is most noticeable between those who believe in ’free tagging’, and those who prefer the more formal construction of an ontology to define both the vocabulary of the domain and the relationships between the concepts within it. Looking at the community surrounding online amateur authors and the descriptive metadata they have developed over the last thirty years we consider what we can learn from a mature but amateur tagging community. This paper considers how these two systems might be used together to add the easy usability of free tagging to ontology descriptions and the conceptual richness of ontologies to free tags.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Event Dates: April 24 - 28, 2006 |
| Keywords: | ontology, folksonomy, free tagging, indexing, case study |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Agents, Interactions & Complexity |
| Item ID: | 262068 |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Mar 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2012 23:39 |
| Contributors: | Lawrence, K. Faith (Author) schraefel, m. c. (Author) |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Additional Information: | Event Dates: April 24 - 28, 2006 |
| Status: | Published |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/262068 |
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