Re: Folksonomy Tagging as Subject Identity Assertions

Hi Liliana,

Thanks for the links.  I was originally planning on digesting them a bit before I replied, but the odds of that happening in the next several days are getting smaller and smaller.  Before it slipped my mind, I wanted to let you know they didn't disappear into the abyss! :)

I'll hopefully have some time to investigate these a bit more over the coming weeks.

Cheers,

ast

On 5 Dec 2010, at 11:27 AM, Liliana Melgar E. wrote:

> 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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