Open AccessEvidence of term‐structure differences among folksonomies and controlled indexing languages
Author(s) -
Good Benjamin M.,
Tennis Joseph T.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.2008.1450450378
Subject(s) - search engine indexing , computer science , information retrieval , index (typography) , the internet , world wide web , set (abstract data type) , automatic indexing , term (time) , physics , quantum mechanics , programming language
With the advent of Internet-based technologies for information organization, many groups have constructed their own indexing languages. Biologists, Library and Information Science practitioners, and now social taggers have worked together to create large and many times complex indexing languages. In this environment of diversity, two questions surface: (1) what are the measurable characteristics of these indexing languages, and (2) do measurements of these indexing languages speciate along these characteristics? This poster presents data from this exploratory work.