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Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends
Weighted list with a visual description of user-generated tags. In tag clouds, tags are typically listed alphabetically, while the tag frequency is shown with font size or color.
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Folksonomy: Creating Metadata through Collaborative Tagging
Stefan Bitzer (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany), Lars Thoroe (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany), and Matthias Schumann (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-368-5.ch014
Abstract
Modern Web 2.0 technologies facilitate the collaboration and sharing of information among users, thereby enabling cooperative processes of information search. One kind of user participation is collaborative tagging, where individuals assign keywords to resources and objects on the Internet. Through the allocation of keywords, objects are enhanced with user-created metadata which results in the so-called folksonomies. This chapter focuses on the classification of tags based on function and user motivation, examines advantages and disadvantages of folksonomies, and provides a review of current applications using collaborative tagging. Future trends and potential developments are identified as they relate to the implementation of collaborative tagging in corporate settings.
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A visual depiction of content tags used on a website. Tags are typically listed alphabetically, and tag frequency is shown with font size or color
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Music Management in the Digital Age
A visual representation for text data, typically used to depict keyword metadata (tags) on websites, or to visualize free form text.
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Folksonomy: The Collaborative Knowledge Organization System
A tag cloud displays the popularity of tags, either for tags assigned to one single document or for all tags within a complete folksonomy-based platform. The bigger and broader a tag is displayed in a tag cloud, the more often has it been used.
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Social Tagging and Secondary School Libraries: Insights from the AO3 Framework
A visual representation of a website’s tags and their popularity; the bigger the tag is depicted, the more frequent its usage.
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Empowering Marketing Intelligence via Text Analytics
It is the visualization of the words in a data set consisting of texts as a cloud.
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