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      Collaborative tagging : folksonomy, metadata, visualization, e-learning, thesis

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      Date
      2007-12-12
      Author
      Bateman, Scott
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Collaborative tagging is a simple and effective method for organizing and sharing web resources using human created metadata. It has arisen out of the need for an efficient method of personal organization, as the number of digital resources in everyday lives increases. While tagging has become a proven organization scheme through its popularity and widespread use on the Web, little is known about its implications and how it may effectively be applied in different situations. This is due to the fact that tagging has evolved through several iterations of use on social software websites, rather than through a scientific or an engineering design process. The research presented in this thesis, through investigations in the domain of e-learning, seeks to understand more about the scientific nature of collaborative tagging through a number of human subject studies. While broad in scope, touching on issues in human computer interaction, knowledge representation, Web system architecture, e-learning, metadata, and information visualization, this thesis focuses on how collaborative tagging can supplement the growing metadata requirements of e-learning. I conclude by looking at how the findings may be used in future research, through using information based in the emergent social networks of social software, to automatically adapt to the needs of individual users.
      Degree
      Master of Science (M.Sc.)
      Department
      Computer Science
      Program
      Computer Science
      Supervisor
      McCalla, Gordon I.
      Committee
      Gutwin, Carl; Fichter, Darlene; Vassileva, Julita
      Copyright Date
      December 2007
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-12112007-221606
      Subject
      the World Wide Web
      the Semantic Web
      tag clouds
      e-learning
      information visualization
      folksonomy
      collaborative tagging
      metadata
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