Reuse, Temporal Dynamics, Interest Sharing, and Collaboration in Social Tagging Systems
Abstract
User-generated content is shaping the dynamics of the World Wide Web. Indeed, an increasingly large number of systems provide mechanisms to support the growing demand for content creation, sharing, and management. Tagging systems are a particular class of these systems where users share and collaboratively annotate content such as photos and URLs. This collaborative behavior and the pool of user-generated metadata create opportunities to improve existing systems and to design new mechanisms. However, to realize this potential, it is necessary to understand the usage characteristics of current systems. This work addresses this issue characterizing three tagging systems (CiteULike, Connotea and del.icio.us) while focusing on three aspects: i) the patterns of information (tags and items) production; ii) the temporal dynamics of users' tag vocabularies; and, iii) the social aspects of tagging systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1301.6191,
title = {Reuse, Temporal Dynamics, Interest Sharing, and Collaboration in Social Tagging Systems},
author = {Elizeu Santos-Neto and David Condon and Nazareno Andrade and Adriana Iamnitchi and Matei Ripeanu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.6191},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Part of this work has been publish in the ACM International Conference on Hypertext'2009