Tagging is widely adopted in so-called "collaborative-tagging" systems which are one
of the Web 2.0 applications that have achieved lots of attention lately. They provide
services for users to store, manage and search web resources with the help of freely
chosen keywords, called "tags". Because of the high-volume usage of these systems
and the annotations that users provide by their tags, these systems are regarded as
good targets for disciplines like knowledge discovery. Roughly, two lines of research
have been pursued so far on collaborative tagging: to study the structure of tags and
to study their functionality in web search. In this research we investigated tagging
structures in a popular collaborative-tagging system, called del.icio.us, by focusing on
the relations of "tags", "users" and "web resources", three main components of any
collaborative-tagging system. Particularly we are interested in finding whether there
are social structures that could be used to increase the usability of these systems
for content retrieval and navigation. Our results show that people mainly use tags
for their own informational needs which are personal rather than social. Any social
structure or communities around tags and users is rare and weak which suggests that
collaborative tagging has not added much to personal bookmarking. However, we
show some regularities in tagging behavior that could be utilized for user experience
improvement. / Thesis (Master, Computing) -- Queen's University, 2008-12-04 14:34:37.537
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:OKQ.1974/1604 |
| Date | 04 December 2008 |
| Creators | Fani Marvasti, AMIN |
| Contributors | Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.)) |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 4356498 bytes, application/pdf |
| Rights | This publication is made available by the authority of the copyright owner solely for the purpose of private study and research and may not be copied or reproduced except as permitted by the copyright laws without written authority from the copyright owner. |
| Relation | Canadian theses |
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