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• 17 Dec 08
  

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• 11 Dec 08
  

  Stan Johann

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  • Ontologies are enabling technology for the Semantic
    Web.
  • Folksonomies
    are an emergent phenomenon of the Social Web.
  • 17 more annotations...
  • • They arise from data about how
      people associate terms with content that they generate, share, or
      consume. 
    • This article is an
      attempt to clarify the distinct roles for ontologies and folksonomies, and
      previews some new work that applies the two ideas together - an ontology of
      folksonomy.
    • The only problem with the anti-ontology blog, is, as my
      friend put it: "He misses the point ... so beautifully."
    • The problem is that the blog,
      like much of the popular writing on ontology, confuses
      ontology-as-specified-conceptualization with a very narrow form of
      specification (the taxonomic classification) and a very specific methodology
      for agreeing on a conceptualization (centrally controlled
      categorization). 
    • The attack on "ontology" is really an attack on top
      down categorization as a way of
      finding and organizing information, and the praise for folksonomy
      is really the observation that we now have an entirely new source of data for
      finding and organizing information: user
      participation.
    • Tags
      introduce distributed human intelligence into the system.
    • As others have
      pointed out, Google's revolution in search quality began when it incorporated a
      measure of "popular" acclaim -- the hyperlink -- as evidence that a
      page ought to be associated with a query.
    • When the early webmasters were
      manually creating directories of interesting sites relevant to their interests,
      they were implicitly "voting with their links."  Today, as the
      adopters of tagging systems enthusiastically label their bookmarks and photos,
      they are implicitly voting with their tags.  This is, indeed,
      "radical" in the political sense, and clearly a source of power to
      exploit.
    • You guessed: create an ontology for folksonomy.
    • Let's start by clarifying our purposes. After all, this is
      an engineering design effort -- not an exercise in categorizing the world's
      content.  Consider two use cases.
    • This means that there must be some way of
      reasoning about the equivalence or relationship among tagging data across
      applications.
    • I tag it with the labels that categorize my
      trip for travel ("adventure" "culture" "diving" etc.)
      and the travel site can tag it automatically with things like the places I
      visited ("Bali" "Ubud" etc.) and my screen name.
    • Tagging across various and
      varied applications, both existent and to be created, requires that we make it
      possible to exchange, compare, and reason about the tag data without any one
      application owning the "tag space" or folksonomy.
    • Use Case 2: Collaborative Filtering Based on Tagging
    • Google is great, but it takes work sorting through all the
      noise.
    • Again, this use case
      requires that there be a common conceptualization of what tagging means and at
      least some way for a service to correlate or connect tag data from one application
      to another.
    • A Tag Ontology - some design considerations
• 04 Dec 08
  

  peter chan
  • identify some common conceptualization of
    the data
  • "tagging" with keywords the content they created or
    encountered
  • 7 more annotations...
  • • folksonomy
    • the emergent
      labeling of lots of things by people in a social context.
    • Clay Shirky (2005)
      makes the argument that "ontology is overrated" and tags are "a
      radical break with previous categorization strategies...much more organic ways
      of organizing information than our current categorization schemes
      allow.
    • Dewey
      Decimal System
    • categorization as a way of
      finding and organizing information
    • As others have
      pointed out, Google's revolution in search quality began when it incorporated a
      measure of "popular" acclaim -- the hyperlink -- as evidence that a
      page ought to be associated with a query.
    • create an ontology for folksonomy
• 28 Oct 08
  

  Anette Seiler

  Ontologies are enabling technology for the Semantic Web. They are a means for people to state what they mean by the terms used in data that they might generate, share, or consume. Folksonomies are an emergent phenomenon of the Social Web. They arise from

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  africangirl

  Ontologies are enabling technology for the Semantic Web. They are a means for people to state what they mean by the terms used in data that they might generate, share, or consume. Folksonomies are an emergent phenomenon of the Social Web. They arise from

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• 19 Oct 08
  

  George Appel

  folksonomy semantic tags

• 17 Oct 08
  

  artje sneng

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• 01 Oct 08
  

  Diego Morelli
  • Ontologies are enabling technology for the Semantic
    Web.  They are a means for people to state what they mean by the terms
    used in data that they might generate, share, or consume.  Folksonomies
    are an emergent phenomenon of the Social Web. They arise from data about how
    people associate terms with content that they generate, share, or
    consume.
  • In the context of the Semantic Web, "ontology" is
    an enabling technology -- a layer of the enabling infrastructure -- for
    information sharing and manipulation.  The approach is simple: parties who
    have software/data/services to offer identify some common conceptualization of
    the data; they specify that conceptualization as clearly they can; they build
    systems that interoperate on those specifications.
  • 3 more annotations...
  • • Hence the term "folksonomy" - the emergent
      labeling of lots of things by people in a social context.
    • For bookmarking, tagging helps to counter the spam-induced noise in search
      engines, and for photo sharing, tagging gives those text-based search engines a
      fighting chance.
    • The attack on "ontology" is really an attack on top
      down categorization as a way of
      finding and organizing information, and the praise for folksonomy
      is really the observation that we now have an entirely new source of data for
      finding and organizing information: user
      participation.
• 28 May 08
  

  Ivan Pavlov

  ontology folksonomy metadata tags article

  • Ontologies are enabling technology for the Semantic
    Web.  They are a means for people to state what they mean by the terms
    used in data that they might generate, share, or consume.  Folksonomies
    are an emergent phenomenon of the Social Web. They arise from data about how
    people associate terms with content that they generate, share, or
    consume.  Recently the two ideas have been put into opposition, as if they
    were right and left poles of a political spectrum.  This is a false
    dichotomy; they are more like apples and oranges. In fact, as the Semantic Web
    matures and the Social Web grows, there is increasing value in applying
    Semantic Web technologies to the data of the Social Web. This article is an
    attempt to clarify the distinct roles for ontologies and folksonomies, and
    previews some new work that applies the two ideas together - an ontology of
    folksonomy.
• 31 Mar 08
  

  Debra Kolah

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• 28 Jan 08
  

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• 10 Dec 07
  

  Sylvie Le Bars

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• 29 Oct 07
  

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    Ontologies are enabling technology for the Semantic
    Web.  They are a means for people to state what they mean by the terms
    used in data that they might generate, share, or consume.  Folksonomies
    are an emergent phenomenon of the Social Web. They arise from data about how
    people associate terms with content that they generate, share, or
    consume.  Recently the two ideas have been put into opposition, as if they
    were right and left poles of a political spectrum.  This is a false
    dichotomy; they are more like apples and oranges. In fact, as the Semantic Web
    matures and the Social Web grows, there is increasing value in applying
    Semantic Web technologies to the data of the Social Web. This article is an
    attempt to clarify the distinct roles for ontologies and folksonomies, and
    previews some new work that applies the two ideas together - an ontology of
    folksonomy.

• 26 Oct 07
  

  Cherice Montgomery

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• 24 Oct 07
  

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• 07 Sep 07
  

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• 06 Sep 07
  

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• 24 Aug 07
  

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• 28 Jun 07
  

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• 30 Apr 07
  

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• 25 Apr 07
  

  Nicolas Hoizey

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• 09 Apr 07
  

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• 05 Apr 07
  

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  This article is an attempt to clarify the distinct roles for ontologies and folksonomies, and previews some new work that applies the two ideas together - an ontology of folksonomy.

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• 14 Feb 07
  

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• 31 Jan 07
  

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• 29 Dec 06
  

  Julia Lesage

  Folksonomy, which is how people label things, leads to but does not mesh with the goal of a semantic web, which needs logical classification terms to aid computer programs in creating new knowlege.

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• 06 Dec 06
  

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• 13 Nov 06
  

  Motte

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• 12 Nov 06
  

  Markus

  folksonomies

  • review some new work that applies the two ideas together to
    enable an Internet ecology for folksonomies.
  • Taxonomies limit the dimensions
    along which one can make distinctions, and local choices at the leaves are
    constrained by global categorizations in the branches.
  • 22 more annotations...
  • • Folksonomies are massively dimensional (one dimension per
      potential term, as in full-text indexing), and there is no global consistency
      imposed by current practice.
    • The attack on "ontology" is really an attack on
      top down categorization as a way of finding and organizing information,
    • For the task of finding information, taxonomies are too rigid
      and purely text-based search is too weak.  Tags introduce distributed human
      intelligence into the system.
    • I want to join forces with my
      colleagues in the tagging community [11]
      to help build the infrastructure that will enable my system to interoperate in
      an ecosystem of data sources, services, agents, and tools that combine and add
      value to the tagging done by all these users.  How do we do this?  You guessed:
      create an ontology for folksonomy.
    • Collaborative tagging across multiple applications
    • agging across various and varied applications, both existent and to be
      created, requires that we make it possible to exchange, compare, and reason
      about the tag data without any one application owning the "tag space"
      or folksonomy.
    • Collaborative filtering based on tagging
    • If some
      spammer has attempted to hijack the popular tag, I want the masses to reject
      him with their tagging.
    • A
      Tag Ontology - some design considerations
    • this requires negative tagging - asserting that a tag
      should not apply to an object
    • Tagging(object, tag, tagger, source, + or -)
    • Finally, the ontology needs formal definitions of identity
      for each of its core concepts: object, tag, tagger, and source
    • The Semantic Web (and RDF)
      offers a convenient pattern for registering namespaces using URIs
    • collaborative filtering of
      "bad" tags from spammers.
    • TagOntology
    • he TagOntology is about
      identifying and formalizing a conceptualization of the activity of tagging, and
      building technology that commits to the ontology at the semantic level
    • From the
      user's point of view, tagging is an activity in which you label some content
      you create or experience with one or more labels, or tags.
    • Tagging(object, tag, tagger)
    • Tagging(Object1, tag1, tagger1, source1)
    • whether one can tag a tag
    • metatagging
    • ut we can build the
      substrate for an ecosystem of tagging that will lets us innovate and work
      toward the vision of an open tagosphere.   I argue that ontology is core to
      this effect.   We identify a common conceptualization, and work out a
      specification at the semantic level. We identify and build systems that commit
      to the specifications at various levels of commitment, and hook up the
      ecosystem.
• 07 Sep 06
  

  mark van

  ... attempt to shed some cool light on the subject, and to preview some new work that applies the two ideas together to enable an Internet ecology for folksonomies.

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• 31 Aug 06
  

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• 28 Jul 06
  

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• 06 Apr 06
  

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• 10 Mar 06
  

  linkmess

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• 10 Feb 06
  

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• 08 Dec 05
  

  Christina Pikas

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  • Tom Gruber
    
    tomgruber.org and RealTravel.com
    
    
    
    Summary
    
    Ontologies are enabling technology for the Semantic Web. They are a means for people to state what they mean by formal terms used in data that they might generate or consume. Folksonomies are an emergent phenomenon of the social web. They are created as people associate terms with content that they generate or consume. Recently the two ideas have been put into opposition, as if they were right and left poles of a political spectrum. This piece is an attempt to shed some cool light on the subject, and to preview some new work that applies the two ideas together to enable an Internet ecology for folksonomies.
• 07 Dec 05
  

  Linda Hartley

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  champignon

  folksonomy

  • Recently the two ideas [ ontology + folksonomy ] have been put into opposition, as if they were right and left poles of a political spectrum. This piece is an attempt to shed some cool light on the subject, and to preview some new work that applies the two ideas together to enable an Internet ecology for folksonomies.
    
    (Note: this is not about developing a common folksonomy - a common set of words to use when tagging. For example, the ontology will not include terms for labeling documents as about science or business; it will not be for modeling particular domains such as geography or photography.) The TagOntology is about identifying and formalizing a conceptualization of the activity of tagging, and building technology that commits to the ontology at the semantic level.
• 05 Dec 05
  

  Nancy White

  Summary
  
  Ontologies are enabling technology for the Semantic Web. They are a means for people to state what they mean by formal terms used in data that they might generate or consume. Folksonomies are an emergent phenomenon of the social web. They ar

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• 04 Dec 05
  

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• 30 Nov 05
  

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• 29 Nov 05
  

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• 26 Nov 05
  

  Martin Lindner

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• 25 Nov 05
  

  Thomas Vander Wal

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  Motte on 2006-11-13
  Tom Gruber, the ontology man, about folksonomies

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