Re: Folksonomy Tagging as Subject Identity Assertions

Hi dear Andrew,

I am very interested in this issue as well.

If I am not wrong, it relates to some studies by the Topic Maps community on
extracting metadata from unstructured data or unstructured sources applying
automated classification (groupping different 'keywords' with their
"subject" which would have the identifier). I found this presentation very
useful:
http://www.topicmapslab.de/publications/topic_maps_and_automated_classification

Also, there are some studies in other communities that may have the
perspective you are describing. They are usually referred to as "emergent
semantics", and usually use facets to group conceptually those taggs from a
bottom-up analysis.

This is a very interesting thesis that gives ideas and an overview of these
studies: https://oda.hio.no/jspui/handle/10642/313

And this one (in Portuguesse) also tries to relate groups of tags with their
correspondent Dublin Core property (and found that some don't map at all,
but proposed another metadata application profile that could include them):
http://hdl.handle.net/1822/9564


Also these articles may be helpful:

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/313
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.21190/abstract

It would be interesting to know if you find more on this applied to Topic
Maps.

Regards,

Liliana Melgar


2010/12/4 Andrew S. Townley <[email protected]>
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Been doing some searching, but haven't found much detail about practical
applications of using existing folksonomy classifications (e.g. tagging) to
derive or infer subject identity in varying degrees of relevance.  Most of
what I saw on "semantic tagging" or anything similar I could think of a
search kewords has the opposite: provide a way to more precisely tag
resources using the proper semantics, vs. the bottom-up approach that I'm
looking for.
>
> Has anyone seen anything about this related to Topic Maps or have people
trying to map large bodies of existing information done anything in this
space already?
>
> I have a few thoughts about how something like this could work to generate
degrees of certainty in subject identity, but they're just thoughts
>
> Anyone doing this sort of thing with Topic Maps?
>
> Cheers,
>
> ast
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