Bookmarks (or favorites, hotlists) are popular strategies to relocate interesting websites on the WWW by creating a personalized URL repository. Most current browsers offer a facility to locally store and manage bookmarks in a hierarchy of folders; though, with growing size, users reportedly have trouble to create and maintain a stable organization structure. This paper presents a novel collaborative approach to ease bookmark management, especially the ''classification'' of new bookmarks into a folder. We propose a methodology to realize the collaborative classification idea of considering how similar users have classified a bookmark. A combination of nearest-neighbor-classifiers is used to derive a recommendation from similar users on where to store a new bookmark. A prototype system called CariBo has been implemented as a plugin for the central bookmark server software SiteBar. All findings have been evaluated on a reasonably large scale, real user dataset with promising results, and possible implications for shared and social bookmarking systems are discussed.
%0 Journal Article
%1 1290825
%A Benz, Dominik
%A Tso, Karen H. L.
%A Schmidt-Thieme, Lars
%C New York, NY, USA
%D 2007
%I Elsevier North-Holland, Inc.
%J Comput. Networks
%K folksonomy iim_socsoft imported recommendation
%N 16
%P 4574--4585
%R http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2007.06.014
%T Supporting collaborative hierarchical classification: Bookmarks as an example
%U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1290825&coll=Portal&dl=GUIDE&CFID=46454031&CFTOKEN=27530397
%V 51
%X Bookmarks (or favorites, hotlists) are popular strategies to relocate interesting websites on the WWW by creating a personalized URL repository. Most current browsers offer a facility to locally store and manage bookmarks in a hierarchy of folders; though, with growing size, users reportedly have trouble to create and maintain a stable organization structure. This paper presents a novel collaborative approach to ease bookmark management, especially the ''classification'' of new bookmarks into a folder. We propose a methodology to realize the collaborative classification idea of considering how similar users have classified a bookmark. A combination of nearest-neighbor-classifiers is used to derive a recommendation from similar users on where to store a new bookmark. A prototype system called CariBo has been implemented as a plugin for the central bookmark server software SiteBar. All findings have been evaluated on a reasonably large scale, real user dataset with promising results, and possible implications for shared and social bookmarking systems are discussed.
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abstract = {Bookmarks (or favorites, hotlists) are popular strategies to relocate interesting websites on the WWW by creating a personalized URL repository. Most current browsers offer a facility to locally store and manage bookmarks in a hierarchy of folders; though, with growing size, users reportedly have trouble to create and maintain a stable organization structure. This paper presents a novel collaborative approach to ease bookmark management, especially the ''classification'' of new bookmarks into a folder. We propose a methodology to realize the collaborative classification idea of considering how similar users have classified a bookmark. A combination of nearest-neighbor-classifiers is used to derive a recommendation from similar users on where to store a new bookmark. A prototype system called CariBo has been implemented as a plugin for the central bookmark server software SiteBar. All findings have been evaluated on a reasonably large scale, real user dataset with promising results, and possible implications for shared and social bookmarking systems are discussed.},
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address = {New York, NY, USA},
author = {Benz, Dominik and Tso, Karen H. L. and Schmidt-Thieme, Lars},
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journal = {Comput. Networks},
keywords = {folksonomy iim_socsoft imported recommendation},
number = 16,
pages = {4574--4585},
publisher = {Elsevier North-Holland, Inc.},
timestamp = {2008-01-24T16:18:20.000+0100},
title = {Supporting collaborative hierarchical classification: Bookmarks as an example},
url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1290825&coll=Portal&dl=GUIDE&CFID=46454031&CFTOKEN=27530397},
volume = 51,
year = 2007
}