Paper Info
Title
The social bookmark and publication management system bibsonomy - A platform for evaluating and demonstrating Web 2.0 research
Abstract
Social resource sharing systems are central elements of the Web 2.0 and use the same kind of lightweight knowledge representation, called folksonomy. Their large user communities and ever-growing networks of user-generated content have made them an attractive object of investigation for researchers from different disciplines like Social Network Analysis, Data Mining, Information Retrieval or Knowledge Discovery. In this paper, we summarize and extend our work on different aspects of this branch of Web 2.0 research, demonstrated and evaluated within our own social bookmark and publication sharing system BibSonomy, which is currently among the three most popular systems of its kind. We structure this presentation along the different interaction phases of a user with our system, coupling the relevant research questions of each phase with the corresponding implementation issues. This approach reveals in a systematic fashion important aspects and results of the broad bandwidth of folksonomy research like capturing of emergent semantics, spam detection, ranking algorithms, analogies to search engine log data, personalized tag recommendations and information extraction techniques. We conclude that when integrating a real-life application like BibSonomy into research, certain constraints have to be considered; but in general, the tight interplay between our scientific work and the running system has made BibSonomy a valuable platform for demonstrating and evaluating Web 2.0 research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/s00778-010-0208-4
VLDB JOURNAL
Keywords
DocType
Volume
BibSonomy,Collaborative tagging,Web 2.0,Folksonomy,Data mining
Journal
19.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
SP6
1066-8888
24
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.32
28
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dominik Benz150021.61
Andreas Hotho23232210.84
Robert Jäschke3101156.90
Beate Krause41147.31
Folke Mitzlaff518811.37
Christoph Schmitz695647.85
Gerd Stumme74208301.17