My paper Telling Experts from Spammers: Expertise Ranking in Folksonomies, a joint work written together with fellow Ph.D. candidate Ching-Man Au Yeung from
Tagging, folksonomy, distributed classification, ethnoclassificationhowever it is labelled, the concept of users creating and aggregating their own metadata is gaining ground on the internet. This literature review briefly defines the topic at hand, looking at current implementations and summarizing key advantages and disadvantages of distributed classification systems with reference to prominent folksonomy commentators. After considering whether distributed classification can replace expert catalogers entirely, it concludes that distributed classification can make an important contribution to digital information organisation, but that it may need to be integrated with more traditional organisation tools to overcome its current weaknesses.
A. Budura, D. Bourges-Waldegg, and J. Riordan. CSE '09: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, page 34--41. Washington, DC, USA, IEEE Computer Society, (2009)
R. Jäschke, L. Marinho, A. Hotho, L. Schmidt-Thieme, and G. Stumme. Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2007, 11th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Warsaw, Poland, September 17-21, 2007, Proceedings, volume 4702 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 506-514. Springer, (2007)
T. Ley, and P. Seitlinger. CEUR Workshop Proceedings of the International Workshop on Adaptation in Social and Semantic Web (SASWeb2010), 590, page 13-18. (2010)
M. Lux, and G. Dösinger. International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL), 3 (4/5):
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C. man Au Yeung, N. Gibbins, and N. Shadbolt. HT '09: Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, page 251--260. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2009)
E. Michlmayr, and S. Cayzer. Proceedings of the Workshop on Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization, 16th International World Wide Web Conference, (2007)