Document co-organization in an online knowledge community Export

@article{citeulike:431, abstract = {We introduce the concept of "document co-organization" and describe such a system. By document co-organization we mean that individuals are allowed to hierarchically organize documents personally and share their hierarchies with others, while the system generates a "consensus" hierarchy from these personal hierarchies, which provides a full, common, and emergent view of all documents. By allowing users to retrieve documents from their own organization (hierarchy), another user's, the consensus hierarchy, or a time-based hierarchy, we provide access corresponding to different characteristics of knowledge tasks: they are personal, collective, social, and time-sensitive. In a class website experiment, we show that for a complex knowledge task, hierarchies are used more frequently than search. One surprising finding is how often students use others' personal hierarchies.}, author = {Wu, Harris and Gordon, Michael D. G. and Demaagd, Kurt}, citeulike-article-id = {431}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=986026}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/985921.986026}, doi = {10.1145/985921.986026}, keywords = {collaboration, folksonomy, knowledge, tagging}, posted-at = {2006-04-08 01:23:42}, priority = {3}, title = {Document co-organization in an online knowledge community}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/985921.986026} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:431 L3 - citeulike-article-id:431 N2 - We introduce the concept of "document co-organization" and describe such a system. By document co-organization we mean that individuals are allowed to hierarchically organize documents personally and share their hierarchies with others, while the system generates a "consensus" hierarchy from these personal hierarchies, which provides a full, common, and emergent view of all documents. By allowing users to retrieve documents from their own organization (hierarchy), another user's, the consensus hierarchy, or a time-based hierarchy, we provide access corresponding to different characteristics of knowledge tasks: they are personal, collective, social, and time-sensitive. In a class website experiment, we show that for a complex knowledge task, hierarchies are used more frequently than search. One surprising finding is how often students use others' personal hierarchies. TI - Document co-organization in an online knowledge community KW - collaboration KW - folksonomy KW - knowledge KW - tagging AU - Wu, Harris AU - Gordon, Michael AU - Demaagd, Kurt UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/985921.986026 ER -