Folksonomy as a Complex Network
Information Retrieval
2007-05-23 v1 Digital Libraries
Physics and Society
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cs/0509072,
title = {Folksonomy as a Complex Network},
author = {Kaikai Shen and Lide Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0509072},
year = {2007}
}