Folksonomies : indexing and retrieval in Web 2.0 / Isabella Peters ; translated from German by Paul Becker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peters, Isabella.

Contributor:

Becker, Paul.

Series:

Knowledge and Information

Knowledge & information : studies in information science, 1868-842X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web 2.0--Social aspects.

Web 2.0.

Web sites--Abstracting and indexing--Social aspects.

Web sites.

Information retrieval--Social aspects.

Information retrieval.

User-generated content.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Indexing and retrieval in Web 2.0

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter/Saur, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Web 2.0 users not only make heavy use of Collaborative Information Services in order to create, publish and share digital information resources - what is more, they index and represent these re-sources via own keywords, so-called tags. The sum of this user-generated metadata of a Collaborative Information Service is also called Folksonomy. In contrast to professionally created and highly structured metadata, e.g. subject headings, thesauri, classification systems or ontologies, which are applied in libraries, corporate information architectures or commercial databases and which were

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Collaborative Information Services

Chapter 2 Basic Terms in Knowledge Representation and Information Retrieval

Chapter 3 Knowledge Representation in Web 2.0: Folksonomies

Chapter 4 Information Retrieval with Folksonomies

Conclusion

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612715679

9781282715677

1282715674

9783598441851

3598441851

OCLC:

644294428