Folksonomies and science communication. A mash-up of professional science databases and Web 2.0 services Export

@article{citeulike:1806502, abstract = {Folksonomies complete the methods of indexing scientific documents. Now scientists in their function as readers may play an active role in science communication as well, since they can tag documents with terms taken from their professional or personal environment. Folksonomies allow the indexing of documents by everyone without following any rules. Besides the benefits of folksonomies there are severe problems, e.g. the tags' lack of precision. In order to overcome the shortcomings of this collaborative indexing method we introduce natural language processing of tags and a relevance ranking algorithm which is based on specific tag distributions, on aspects of collaboration and on the actions of the ” prosumers”. This article is a plea for the combination of the ” old” science databases and the benefits of the folksonomies.}, author = {Stock, Wolfgang G.}, citeulike-article-id = {1806502}, journal = {Information Services \& Use}, keywords = {datenbank, folksonomy, kommunikation, mashup, web\_20, webservice, wissenschaft}, number = {3}, posted-at = {2007-10-22 14:55:15}, priority = {3}, title = {Folksonomies and science communication. A mash-up of professional science databases and Web 2.0 services}, volume = {27}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1806502 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1806502 N2 - Folksonomies complete the methods of indexing scientific documents. Now scientists in their function as readers may play an active role in science communication as well, since they can tag documents with terms taken from their professional or personal environment. Folksonomies allow the indexing of documents by everyone without following any rules. Besides the benefits of folksonomies there are severe problems, e.g. the tags' lack of precision. In order to overcome the shortcomings of this collaborative indexing method we introduce natural language processing of tags and a relevance ranking algorithm which is based on specific tag distributions, on aspects of collaboration and on the actions of the “prosumers”. This article is a plea for the combination of the “old” science databases and the benefits of the folksonomies. IS - 3 JF - Information Services & Use TI - Folksonomies and science communication. A mash-up of professional science databases and Web 2.0 services VL - 27 KW - datenbank KW - folksonomy KW - kommunikation KW - mashup KW - web_20 KW - webservice KW - wissenschaft AU - Stock, Wolfgang PY - 2007/// ER -