Abstract
An ever increasing number of Web sites that allow users to easily collaborate, produce, and share content and interact have turned the Web into a more dynamic social place often referred to as Social Web. One form of Social Web sites is collaborative tagging systems that allow their users to annotate Web resources using tags, thus intuitively organizing them and making them easily findable. Tags would have been much more useful if collaborative tagging systems had been collaborating and allowing for integration of their tagging metadata. In this paper we address this issue of lack of collaboration by suggesting an approach for achieving that collaboration. We also present a concrete system called TagFusion that we developed to test the feasibility of the suggested approach. Special attention has been given to the strategies for attracting collaborative tagging systems to integrate using TagFusion, as well as to the possibility of involving artificial entities in the annotation process in accordance with the Semantic Web vision.
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DBPedia is a project aimed at extracting structured information from Wikipedia and allowing access to it via SPARQL endpoint. More information can be found at the project’s Web site http://wiki.dbpedia.org/
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UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) is a lightweight upper-level ontology based on OpenCyc – an open source version of the world’s largest knowledge base. For more information interested readers are advised to visit the project’s Web site at http://www.umbel.org/
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Stanković, M., Jovanović, J. (2010). TagFusion: A System for Integration and Leveraging of Collaborative Tags. In: Devedžić, V., Gaševic, D. (eds) Web 2.0 & Semantic Web. Annals of Information Systems, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1219-0_1
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