Web 2.0—Social Bookmarking: An Overview of Folksonomies

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Author(s): Richard Derham (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)and Annette Mills (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 19
Source title: Handbook of Research on Web 2.0, 3.0, and X.0: Technologies, Business, and Social Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): San Murugesan (Multimedia University, Malaysia & University of Western Sydney, Australia )
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-384-5.ch012

Keywords: Computer Science & IT / Information Science Reference / Semantic Web / Web Technologies

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Folksonomies is a relatively new concept and, as yet, it has not been widely studied in academic circles. In practice, folksonomies have therefore outpaced academic research in finding solutions to the problems facing them. The goal of this chapter is to bring together the current literature on folksonomies and explore avenues for future work. Hence, this chapter will examine what are folksonomies, what they are/can be used for, and explore their benefits and challenges using real world examples from systems such as Delicious and Flickr. The chapter also overviews some of the current research and suggests avenues for further work.

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