• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.463-480
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• 2008

This study was to review the possible characteristics and patterns that occur when comparing control language constructing guidelines, by analyzing the formal characteristics of folksonomy tags in university libraries. Based on subjected tags at university libraries for a period of 6 months the structure and form of folksonomy was examined. The object tags were analyzed based on the thesaurus development guidelines. The results for this research will provide baseline data for the use of folksonomy tag applications in digital libraries.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.95-112
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• 2008

In contrast to traditional taxonomy, folksonomy is generated not only by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content. Folksonomy is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. It is also known as collaborative tagging or social indexing. Folksonomy is also used to link to create social network that connect people to people who share same interest. Folksonomy users can generally discover the contents by which the tag sets of another user who tends to interpret contents in a way that makes sense to them. Firstly, this study consider the significance and some critical issues about folksonomy. Secondly, analyze special features of Korean academic site's folksonomy, which is managed by academic information site. Accordingly consider the directions of development about folksonomy system.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.59-74
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• 2011

As more users are willingly participating in the creation of web contents, flat folksonomy using simple tags has emerged as a powerful instrument to classify and share a huge amount of knowledge on the web. However, flat folksonomy has semantic problems, such as ambiguity and misunderstanding of tags. To alleviate such problems, many studies have built structured folksonomy with a hierarchical structure or relationships among tags. However, structured folksonomy also has some fundamental problems, such as limited tagging to pre-defined vocabulary for new tags and the timeconsuming manual effort required for selecting tags. To resolve these problems, we suggested a new method of attaching a categorized tag (CT), followed by its category, to web content. CTs are automatically integrated into collaboratively-built structured folksonomy (CSF) in real time, reflecting the tag-and-category relationships by majority users. Then, we developed a CT-based knowledge organization system (CTKOS), which builds the CSF to classify organizational knowledge and allows us to locate the appropriate knowledge.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.109-125
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• 2011

A folksonomy is a new classification approach for organizing information by users to freely attach one or more tags to various resources published on the web. Recently, in order to provide useful services and organize the folksonomy data, many collaborative tagging systems based on folksonomy offer additional functionalities for grouping each elements of a folksonomy. In this paper, organization framework for grouped folksonomy is proposed. That is, we suggest the grouped folksonomy model that is an extended folksonomy with the concept of "group" and fundamental operations(Group Aggregation, Group Composition, Group Intersection, Group Difference) for grouping of folksonomy elements. Also, we developed a supporting tool(GFO) that constructs grouped folksonomy and executes fundamental operations. And we introduce some cases using the fundamental operations for grouping of each elements of folksonomy. Based on suggested our approach, we can construct grouped folksonomy and organize and extract useful information from the folksonomy data by grouping each elements of a folksonomy.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.137-150
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• 2009

This study has introduced folksonomy to general patterns of folksonomy tags for the university libraries that have practically implemented Library 2.0. From the results, we can see that average about 1.35 tag is used for one content. Typical pattern of the tags follow a power function that frequency of use decreases as No. of uses increases, 79.51% of tags are expressing topic of contents, and 84.61% of tags are tag of social motivation. The results of analysis on increase/decrease rate for tags divided into 4 quarters said that A university library has big differences from quarters while B university library has similar data between quarters. The users have used average 5.25 tags. Trends of the users can be divided into 3 groups according to tagging patterns of the users.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.1043-1054
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• 2009

As the semantic web receives higher concern with an intensified necessity in these days, the research on the ontology as its core technology has been carried out in various fields. The ontology has been adopted as an alternative to work out lots of problematic issues resulted from the insufficient vocabulary selection rules in folksonomy, widely accepted under Web 2.0. Therefore the importance of research to complementarily consolidate the two disciplines, the folksonomy and the ontology, has been increased. Based on this idea this research proposes a system, which pulls out, using open services, the location information tags from folksonomy-based metadata, ultimately extracts, following location information analyses, spatial relationships among tags, and in turn automatically constructs self-correcting location information domain ontology. The system devised in this study will associate data derived from easily accessible folksonomy with meaningful and technological information from ontology.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.414-423
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• 2009

Folksonomy, which is collaborative classification created by freely selected keywords, is one of the driving factors of the web 2.0. Folksonomy has advantage of being built at low cost while its weakness is lack of hierarchical or systematic structure in comparison with taxonomy. If we can build classifier that is able to classify web resources from collective intelligence in taxonomy, we can build taxonomy at low cost. In this paper, targeting folksonomy in Slashdot.org, we define a general model and show that collective intelligence, which can build classifier, really exists in folksonomy using a stability value. We suggest method that builds SVM classifier using stability that is result from this collective intelligence. The experiment shows that our proposed method managed to build taxonomy from folksonomy with high accuracy.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.562-565
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• 2009

웹 2.0시대의 대표적인 특징인 폭소노미(folksonomy)는 웹에 존재하는 리소스에 대해 구성원이 자유롭게 선택한 태그(tag)를 붙여서 정보를 체계화하는 새로운 분류 체계이다. 폭소노미를 기반으로하는 웹 애플리케이션 시스템에는 WWW를 이용하는 전 세계의 수많은 사용자들의 다양한 데이터가 축적되어 있으며, 이러한 웹 데이터는 계속적으로 증가 확장 변화하고 있다. 본 논문에서는, 방대한 양의 폭소노미 데이터로부터 유용한 정보를 추출하기 위해 형식개념분석기법을 기반으로, 사용자, 태그, 리소스들 사이의 3항관계를 고려한 폭소노미 데이터 마이닝 기법을 제안하고, 본 연구에서 제안한 기법을 BibSonomy의 데이터에 적용하여 분석한 실험 결과를 보고한다.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.290-295
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• 2016

Recently, folksonomy-based image-sharing sites where users cooperatively make and utilize tags of image annotation have been gaining popularity. Typically, these sites retrieve images for a user request using simple text-based matching and display retrieved images in the form of photo stream. However, these tags are personal and subjective and images are not categorized, which results in poor retrieval accuracy and low user satisfaction. In this paper, we propose a categorization scheme for folksonomy images which can improve the retrieval accuracy in the tag-based image retrieval systems. Consequently, images are classified by the semantic similarity using text-information and image-information generated on the folksonomy. To evaluate the performance of our proposed scheme, we collect folksonomy images and categorize them using text features and image features. And then, we compare its retrieval accuracy with that of existing systems.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.71-94
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• 2009

Indexing images using traditional indexing methods like taxonomy is not always efficient because of its visual content. This study examined how to apply folksonomies to image retrieval. To do this, first, we developed a category model for image tags found in Flickr. The model includes five categories and seventeen subcategories. Second, in order to evaluate the usefulness of the model to represent the various image tags as well as to investigate the end-user tagging behavior, three researchers classified the sampled image tags(141 most popular tags, 105 tags on three individual tag clouds and 3,848 image tags assigned on 156 images) according to the model. Finally, based on the research results, we proposed three methods for efficient image retrieval: extending folksonomies by combining them with ontologies; improving image retrieval efficiency using visual content and folksonomies; and updating taxonomy using folksonomies.