Patterns and Inconsistencies in Collaborative Tagging Systems: An Examination of Tagging Practices
This paper analyzes the tagging patterns exhibited by users of del.icio.us, to assess how collaborative tagging supports and enhances traditional ways of classifying and indexing documents. Using frequency data and co-word analysis matrices analyzed by multi-dimensional scaling, the authors discove...
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Language: | en |
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2006
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105181 |