CREATING STRUCTURE FROM DISORDER - Using Folksonomies to Create Semantic Metadata

Hend S. Al-Khalifa, Hugh C. Davis, Lester Gilbert

2007

Abstract

This paper reports on an on-going research project to create educational semantic metadata out of folksonomies. The paper describes a simple scenario for the usage of the generated semantic metadata in teaching, and describes the ‘FolksAnnotation’ tool which applies an organization scheme to tags in a specific domain of interest. The contribution of this paper is to describe an evaluation framework which will allow us to validate our claim that folksonomies are potentially a rich source of metadata.

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in Harvard Style

S. Al-Khalifa H., C. Davis H. and Gilbert L. (2007). CREATING STRUCTURE FROM DISORDER - Using Folksonomies to Create Semantic Metadata . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 3: WEBIST, ISBN 978-972-8865-79-5, pages 391-396. DOI: 10.5220/0001269903910396


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist07,
author={Hend S. Al-Khalifa and Hugh C. Davis and Lester Gilbert},
title={CREATING STRUCTURE FROM DISORDER - Using Folksonomies to Create Semantic Metadata},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 3: WEBIST,},
year={2007},
pages={391-396},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001269903910396},
isbn={978-972-8865-79-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 3: WEBIST,
TI - CREATING STRUCTURE FROM DISORDER - Using Folksonomies to Create Semantic Metadata
SN - 978-972-8865-79-5
AU - S. Al-Khalifa H.
AU - C. Davis H.
AU - Gilbert L.
PY - 2007
SP - 391
EP - 396
DO - 10.5220/0001269903910396