Social Navigation and Local Folksonomies: Technical and Design Considerations for a Mobile Information System

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Author(s): Mark Bilandzic (Technische Universität München, Germany)and Marcus Foth (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 15
Source title: Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Stylianos Hatzipanagos (King’s College London, UK)and Steven Warburton (King’s College London, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-208-4.ch005

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Social Computing / Virtual Communities & Virtual Reality

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Web services such as wikis, blogs, podcasting, file sharing and social networking are frequently referred to by the term Web 2.0. The innovation of these services lies in their ability to enable an increasing number of users to actively participate on the Internet by creating and sharing their own content and help develop a collective intelligence. In this chapter the authors discuss how they use Web 2.0 techniques such as “folksonomy” and “geo-tagging” in a mobile information system to collect and harness the everyday connections and local knowledge of urban residents in order to support their social navigation practices.

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