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The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems
Overview Collaborative tagging describes the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content. Recently, collaborative tagging has grown in popularity on the web, on sites that allow users to tag bookmarks, photographs and other content. This paper analyzes the structure of collaborative tagging systems as well as their dynamical aspects. Specifically, the authors discovered regularities in user activity, tag frequencies, kinds of tags used, bursts of popularity in bookmarking and a remarkable stability in the relative proportions of tags within a given url. The paper also presents a dynamical model of collaborative tagging that predicts these stable patterns and relates them to imitation and shared knowledge.
| Publisher | Hewlett-Packard | File Format | |
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| Date Published | August 2005 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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