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How Social is Social Tagging?

, , , , , and . 23rd International World Wide Web Conference, WWW '14, Seoul, Republic of Korea, April 7-11, 2014, Companion Volume, page 251--252. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2014)
DOI: 10.1145/2567948.2577301

Abstract

Social tagging systems have established themselves as an important part in today’s web and have attracted the inter- est of our research community in a variety of investigations. This has led to several assumptions about tagging, such as that tagging systems exhibit a social component. In this work we overcome the previous absence of data for testing such an assumption. We thoroughly study social interac- tion, leveraging for the first time live log data gathered from the real-world public social tagging system BibSonomy. Our results indicate that sharing of resources constitutes an im- portant and indeed social aspect of tagging.

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