Relating folksonomies with Dublin Core. (1st October 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Catarino, Maria Elisabete; Baptista, Ana Alice
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 5:Number 4(2010)
• Page Start: 285
• Page End: 295
• Publication Date: 2010-10-01
• Subjects: folksonomy -- social tagging -- metadata tags -- Dublin Core; Metadata -- Periodicals; Semantic Web -- Periodicals; Ontologies (Information retrieval) -- Periodicals; Data structures (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Information theory -- Periodicals; 005.74
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-2621

Abstract

This article presents a research carried out to continue the project Kinds of Tags, which intends to identify elements required for metadata originating from folksonomies. It will provide information that may be used by intelligent applications to assign tags to metadata elements. Despite the unquestionably high value of DC and DC Terms, the pilot study revealed a significant number of tags for which no corresponding properties yet existed. A need for new properties was determined. This article presents the problem, motivation and methodology of the underlying research. It further presents and discusses the findings from the pilot study.