Creating structure from disorder: Using folksonomies to create semantic metadata

Webist 2007 - 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, Proceedings

Volumn SEBEG, Issue EL/-, 2007, Pages 391-396

  Al Khalifa, Hend S ^a   Davis, Hugh C ^a   Gilbert, Lester ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaborative tagging; Folksonomies; Learning resource; Semantic metadata; Social bookmarking

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE TAGGING; FOLKSONOMIES; LEARNING RESOURCE; SEMANTIC METADATA; SOCIAL BOOKMARKING;

EDUCATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

METADATA;

EID: 67649991151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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