Collaborative thesaurus tagging the Wikipedia way Export

@misc{citeulike:600598, abstract = {This paper explores the system of categories that is used to classify articles in Wikipedia. It is compared to collaborative tagging systems like del.icio.us and to hierarchical classification like the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). Specifics and commonalitiess of these systems of subject indexing are exposed. Analysis of structural and statistical properties (descriptors per record, records per descriptor, descriptor levels) shows that the category system of Wikimedia is a thesaurus that combines collaborative tagging and hierarchical subject indexing in a special way.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Voss, Jakob}, citeulike-article-id = {600598}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IR/0604036}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.IR/0604036}, day = {10}, eprint = {cs.IR/0604036}, keywords = {classification, folksonomy, wikipedia}, month = {Apr}, posted-at = {2009-01-26 22:14:39}, priority = {2}, title = {Collaborative thesaurus tagging the Wikipedia way}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IR/0604036}, year = {2006} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:600598 L3 - citeulike-article-id:600598 N2 - This paper explores the system of categories that is used to classify articles in Wikipedia. It is compared to collaborative tagging systems like del.icio.us and to hierarchical classification like the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). Specifics and commonalitiess of these systems of subject indexing are exposed. Analysis of structural and statistical properties (descriptors per record, records per descriptor, descriptor levels) shows that the category system of Wikimedia is a thesaurus that combines collaborative tagging and hierarchical subject indexing in a special way. TI - Collaborative thesaurus tagging the Wikipedia way KW - classification KW - folksonomy KW - wikipedia AU - Voss, Jakob PY - 2006/Apr/10/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IR/0604036 ER -