Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems

by: Scott A. Golder, Bernardo A. Huberman

Journal of Information Science, Vol. 32, No. 2. (1 April 2006), pp. 198-208.

Abstract

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. In this paper we analyze the structure of collaborative tagging systems as well as their dynamic aspects. Specifically, we 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. We also present a dynamic model of collaborative tagging that predicts these stable patterns and relates them to imitation and shared knowledge. 10.1177/0165551506062337

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	folksonomy Well written article. A good macroscopic look at patterns in tags as exhibited in delicious. Based on a friday-to-sunday crawl in June 05. Sampling is reflects users active at that moment. Perhaps the main finding is that the distribution of tags for a given URL stabilizes à la Polya's urn after about 100 bookmarkings. Also lists 7 kinds of tags, of which one is subjective (qualities like funny) and two are relevant to personal use (self-ref: mycomments; task organizing: toread). 2009-10-01 15:24:34
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Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems

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