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Social Bookmarking or Tagging

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Synonyms

Bookmarks; Social Tags

Glossary

Annotation:

See Tag

Folksonomy:

Whole set of tags that constitutes an unstructured collaborative knowledge classification scheme in a social tagging system

Resource:

In the context of this work, a multimedia content (e.g., text file, photos, videos, web page) available on the Internet. A resource is generally identified by a Unique Resource Identifier (URI) which enables its access using the REST protocol

Social bookmarking system:

Web-based systems allowing users to describe resources with tags

Social bookmark:

Tag in the form of a link to a resource (e.g., web page) that is intentionally stored, and possibly shared, by an identified individual on a social bookmarking system, in which individuals can attach tags

Tag:

A descriptive keyword entered by a human individual with the objective to describe a resource (e.g., a photo, a web page). It is also called an annotation or user-generated content

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Social bookmarking systems (SBS) are...

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  1. Univ. Lyon, UJM-Saint-Etienne, CNRS, Laboratoire Hubert Curien UMR 5516, Saint Etienne, France

    Johann Stan

  2. ISCOD – Institut Henri Fayol, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Université de Lyon, UJM-Saint-Étienne, CNRS, Saint-Étienne, France

    Johann Stan

  3. UMR 5516 Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Université de Lyon, CNRS, F-42023, Saint- Étienne, France

    Pierre Maret

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Stan, J., Maret, P. (2018). Social Bookmarking or Tagging. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_91

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