User Generated Content,
Folksonomies and how they
can be combined
Max Arends
[email protected]
Electronic Commerce Group
VSEM – The Virtual 3D Social Experience Museum
Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems
Vienna University of Technology
Favoritenstrasse 9-11/188-1 . 1040 Vienna . Austria/Europe
Tel: +43 (1) 58801 - 18815
http://vsem.ec.tuwien.ac.at/
Folksonomy
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“A folksonomy is a
system of
classification derived
from the practice and
method of
collaboratively
creating and
managing tags to
annotate and
categorize content.”
Isabella Peters (2009),
“Folksonomies. Indexing and Retrieval
in Web 2.0”. Berlin: De Gruyter Saur
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Folksonomy
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Advantages compared to fixed vocabulary
classification:
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Every user can participate
Search keywords are given by those users who
actually use them
Hidden information and context is made
available
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Folksonomy
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Disadvantages
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Not a defined approach of indexing
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Book
books
bücher
javascript
php
Windows
Bücherregal
buch
christianheilmann
dustindiaz
bush ?
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Other ways to get tags: Opencalais
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A Thomson Reuters initative
Launched in January 2008
Ingests unstructued text and returns RDF
formatted results identifying
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Entities
Facts
Events
Let‘s see an easy example of what Opencalais is capable of...
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so what do we have, what do we
want?
We have:
 Information from WGA about paintings:
 Author, place and year of birth, death,
title, date, technique, location, form, type,
school, timeline and a description!
 About 20.000 paintings are categorized
We want:
 Tags and information that is not obvious
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In order to get further
information, we make use of
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Opencalais
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Flickr
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Image Matching
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Youtube
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We even tried twitter
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Outlook
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Make tags available in 3D environment
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Make tags changeable in the 3D environment
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If tags are added, also add them in Flickr
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Combine with other semantic databases (freebase, etc.)
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Add more social features to the 3D environment
Videos
 inside-picture tagging
 add a fixed vocabulary (dbpedia)
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What else have we done
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Working on publications!
We published about book-chapter „Museums on the Web:
Interaction with Visitors“ for a handbook called
„Handbook of Research on Technologies and Cultural
Heritage: Applications and Environments“
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We will present our PhD-Progress at the ICWE 2010
Doctoral Consortium
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Working on paper for the DIMEA 2010
(Digital Interactive Media Entertainment and Arts) in
Taiwan
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Thank You!
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Questions?
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