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What is Geo-tagging

Chapter 5
Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies
An approach which adds latitude and longitude identifiers as metadata to online content. It enables people to embed their information resources such as text, pictures or videos in a specific spatial and semantic context to augment the physical world with virtual information. Such a mediated social environment can help people navigate physical spaces by using location aware mobile devices.
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Social Navigation and Local Folksonomies: Technical and Design Considerations for a Mobile Information System
Mark Bilandzic (Technische Universität München, Germany) and Marcus Foth (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-208-4.ch005
Abstract
Web services such as wikis, blogs, podcasting, file sharing and social networking are frequently referred to by the term Web 2.0. The innovation of these services lies in their ability to enable an increasing number of users to actively participate on the Internet by creating and sharing their own content and help develop a collective intelligence. In this chapter the authors discuss how they use Web 2.0 techniques such as “folksonomy” and “geo-tagging” in a mobile information system to collect and harness the everyday connections and local knowledge of urban residents in order to support their social navigation practices.
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