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Folksonomy is a classification system in which end users apply public tags to online items, typically to make those items easier for themselves or others to find later. Over time, this can give rise to a classification system based on those tags and how often they are applied or searched for, in contrast to a taxonomic classification designed by the owners of the content and specified when it ...
A tag cloud (a typical Web 2.0 phenomenon in itself) presenting Web 2.0 themes. Web 2.0 (also known as participative (or participatory) [1] web and social web) [2] refers to websites that emphasize user-generated content, ease of use, participatory culture, and interoperability (i.e., compatibility with other products, systems, and devices) for end users.
Social bookmarking is an online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents. [1][2] Many online bookmark management services have launched since 1996; Delicious, founded in 2003, popularized the terms "social bookmarking" and "tagging". Tagging is a significant feature of social bookmarking systems ...
Tag (metadata) A tag cloud with terms related to Web 2.0. In information systems, a tag is a keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, multimedia, database record, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. [1]
Thomas Vander Wal. Thomas Vander Wal is an information architect best known for coining the term "folksonomy". [1] He is also known for initiating the term "infocloud". [2] His work has primarily dealt with the Web and with information design and structure especially in the context of social technology.
The Semantic Web, sometimes known as Web 3.0 (not to be confused with Web3), is an extension of the World Wide Web through standards [ 1 ] set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The goal of the Semantic Web is to make Internet data machine-readable. To enable the encoding of semantics with the data, technologies such as Resource ...
The Social Semantic Web can be seen as a Web of collective knowledge systems, which are able to provide useful information based on human contributions and which get better as more people participate. [1] The Social Semantic Web combines technologies, strategies and methodologies from the Semantic Web, social software and the Web 2.0.
Semantic search seeks to improve search accuracy by understanding the searcher's intent and the contextual meaning of terms as they appear in the searchable dataspace, whether on the Web or within a closed system, to generate more relevant results. Some authors regard semantic search as a set of techniques for retrieving knowledge from richly ...