J. Voss. (April 2006)Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, 7 tables; v2 with added
appendix and fixed references.
Abstract
This paper explores the system of categories that is
used to classify articles in Wikipedia. It is compared
to collaborative tagging systems like del.icio.us and
to hierarchical classification like the Dewey Decimal
Classification (DDC). Specifics and commonalitiess of
these systems of subject indexing are exposed. Analysis
of structural and statistical properties (descriptors
per record, records per descriptor, descriptor levels)
shows that the category system of Wikimedia is a
thesaurus that combines collaborative tagging and
hierarchical subject indexing in a special way.
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%A Voss, Jakob
%D 2006
%K tagging wikipedia
%T Collaborative thesaurus tagging the Wikipedia way
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0604036
%X This paper explores the system of categories that is
used to classify articles in Wikipedia. It is compared
to collaborative tagging systems like del.icio.us and
to hierarchical classification like the Dewey Decimal
Classification (DDC). Specifics and commonalitiess of
these systems of subject indexing are exposed. Analysis
of structural and statistical properties (descriptors
per record, records per descriptor, descriptor levels)
shows that the category system of Wikimedia is a
thesaurus that combines collaborative tagging and
hierarchical subject indexing in a special way.
@misc{oai:arXiv.org:cs/0604036,
abstract = {This paper explores the system of categories that is
used to classify articles in Wikipedia. It is compared
to collaborative tagging systems like del.icio.us and
to hierarchical classification like the Dewey Decimal
Classification (DDC). Specifics and commonalitiess of
these systems of subject indexing are exposed. Analysis
of structural and statistical properties (descriptors
per record, records per descriptor, descriptor levels)
shows that the category system of Wikimedia is a
thesaurus that combines collaborative tagging and
hierarchical subject indexing in a special way.},
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author = {Voss, Jakob},
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note = {Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, 7 tables; v2 with added
appendix and fixed references},
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subject = {Computer Science - Information Retrieval; Computer
Science - Digital Libraries; H.3.1},
timestamp = {2007-05-25T16:22:17.000+0200},
title = {Collaborative thesaurus tagging the Wikipedia way},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0604036},
year = 2006
}