Folksonomy as a Complex Network

@misc{citeulike:361498, abstract = {Folksonomy is an emerging technology that works to classify the information over WWW through tagging the bookmarks, photos or other web-based contents. It is understood to be organized by every user while not limited to the authors of the contents and the professional editors. This study surveyed the folksonomy as a complex network. The result indicates that the network, which is composed of the tags from the folksonomy, displays both properties of small world and scale-free. However, the statistics only shows a local and static slice of the vast body of folksonomy which is still evolving.}, author = {Shen, Kaikai and Wu, Lide }, citeulike-article-id = {361498}, eprint = {cs.IR/0509072}, keywords = {folksonomies, networks}, month = {Sep}, posted-at = {2008-07-24 23:19:15}, priority = {2}, title = {Folksonomy as a Complex Network}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IR/0509072}, year = {2005} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:361498 L3 - citeulike-article-id:361498 TI - Folksonomy as a Complex Network N2 - Folksonomy is an emerging technology that works to classify the information over WWW through tagging the bookmarks, photos or other web-based contents. It is understood to be organized by every user while not limited to the authors of the contents and the professional editors. This study surveyed the folksonomy as a complex network. The result indicates that the network, which is composed of the tags from the folksonomy, displays both properties of small world and scale-free. However, the statistics only shows a local and static slice of the vast body of folksonomy which is still evolving. KW - folksonomies KW - networks AU - Shen, Kaikai AU - Wu, Lide PY - 2005/Sep/23/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IR/0509072 ER -