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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781161903321

Autore

Peters Isabella

Titolo

Folksonomies [[electronic resource] ] : indexing and retrieval in Web 2.0 / / Isabella Peters ; translated from German by Paul Becker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : De Gruyter/Saur, c2009

ISBN

1-282-71567-4

9786612715679

3-598-44185-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (452 p.)

Collana

Knowledge & information : studies in information science, , 1868-842X

Altri autori (Persone)

BeckerPaul

Disciplina

028.7

Soggetti

Web 2.0 - Social aspects

Web sites - Abstracting and indexing - Social aspects

Information retrieval - Social aspects

User-generated content

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Collaborative Information Services -- Chapter 2 Basic Terms in Knowledge Representation and Information Retrieval -- Chapter 3 Knowledge Representation in Web 2.0: Folksonomies -- Chapter 4 Information Retrieval with Folksonomies -- Conclusion -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

In Web 2.0 users not only make heavy use of Collaborative Information Services in order to create, publish and share digital information resources - what is more, they index and represent these re-sources via own keywords, so-called tags. The sum of this user-generated metadata of a Collaborative Information Service is also called Folksonomy. In contrast to professionally created and highly structured metadata, e.g. subject headings, thesauri, classification systems or ontologies, which are applied in libraries, corporate information architectures or commercial databases and which were