tagging | Arkaitz Zubiaga

3rd Nov 2010

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Suggesting tags is not always a good idea

When we are tagging a resource on a social tagging system, it could save us work by suggesting us tags for that resource. Therefore, we can choose the tags we consider relevant or representative for…

25th Apr 2010

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A glossary of terms related to social tagging

There are many terms related to –and many times created because of– the social tagging phenomenon. The following is a list of terms that are relevant to social tagging. This list may become larger throughout…

25th Jan 2010

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A Call for Social Tagging Datasets

Christian Körner and Markus Strohmaier, from the Graz University of Technology, in Austria, have published an article on social tagging datasets in the latest issue of the ACM SIGWEB Newsletter. Existing social tagging datasets have…

16th Nov 2009

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Wiki10+: a Wikipedia-based social tagging dataset

Wiki10+, a dataset with 20,764 annotated English Wikipedia articles is now available for download. This dataset includes that many Wikipedia articles, with their corresponding social tags retrieved from Delicious. The dataset, including both articles’ content…

28th Aug 2009

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TaggedWiki: A prototype on tags over Wikipedia

I have recently prepared a prototype based on Wikipedia, integrating a tagging system on it. I did it for my presentation at Wikimania 2009, entitled “Enhancing Navigation on Wikipedia with Social Tags”. This prototype allows…

12th Aug 2009

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Enhancing Navigation on Wikipedia with Social Tags

My paper “Enhancing Navigation on Wikipedia with Social Tags” has been accepted for publication and presentation at Wikimania 2009, the 5th International Conference of the Wikimedia Foundation to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from…

7th Jul 2009

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Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web

I’ve recently read the book “Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web“, by Gene Smith, an interesting overview on the art of tagging. I would recommend it to whomever is interested in discovering what tags…

18th Mar 2009

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Zotero: Save, manage, tag and cite your research references with Firefox

As the authors point out, Zotero is “a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage and cite your research sources”. Zotero is a Firefox plugin for managing your research references, which considerably eases…

17th Mar 2009

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Yahoo! TagExplorer: Tag-based Image Retrieval

Yahoo! is working in an interesting tag-based approach for image retrieval, TagExplorer. Taking advantage of the tags users added in the well-known image-sharing site Flickr, TagExplorer uses them as metadata to retrieve images. There are…

10th Mar 2009

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#hashtags: Tag trends in Twitter

Twitter has become a very popular means to share any kind of short message with your contacts. You can now stay tuned to whatever your friends and contacts share with you, and even receive these…

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