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 commonalities
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.
%0 Journal Article
%1 voss2006collaborative
%A Voss, Jakob
%D 2006
%J CoRR
%K collaborative tagging wikipedia
%T Collaborative thesaurus tagging the Wikipedia way
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0604036v2
%V 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 commonalities
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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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 commonalities
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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journal = {CoRR},
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month = apr,
timestamp = {2014-07-28T15:57:31.000+0200},
title = {Collaborative thesaurus tagging the Wikipedia way},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0604036v2},
volume = {abs/cs/0604036},
year = 2006
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