User Generated Content, Folksonomies and how they

can be combined

Max Arendsmax@ec.tuwien.ac.at

Electronic Commerce GroupVSEM – The Virtual 3D Social Experience Museum

Institute of Software Technology and Interactive SystemsVienna University of Technology

Favoritenstrasse 9-11/188-1 . 1040 Vienna . Austria/EuropeTel: +43 (1) 58801 - 18815

http://vsem.ec.tuwien.ac.at/

Folksonomy

“A folksonomy is a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.”

Isabella Peters (2009), “Folksonomies. Indexing and Retrieval in Web 2.0”. Berlin: De Gruyter Saur

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Folksonomy

Advantages compared to fixed vocabulary classification:Every user can participateSearch keywords are given by those users who

actually use themHidden information and context is made

available

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Folksonomy

Disadvantages Not a defined approach of indexing

df

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Book buchbooks christianheilmannbücher dustindiazjavascriptphpWindowsBücherregal

bush ?

Other ways to get tags: Opencalais

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A Thomson Reuters initative Launched in January 2008 Ingests unstructued text and returns RDF

formatted results identifying Entities Facts Events

Let‘s see an easy example of what Opencalais is capable of...

so what do we have, what do we want?

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We have: Information from WGA about paintings:

Author, place and year of birth, death, title, date, technique, location, form, type, school, timeline and a description!

About 20.000 paintings are categorized

We want: Tags and information that is not obvious

In order to get further information, we make use of

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Opencalais

Flickr

Image Matching

Youtube

We even tried twitter

Outlook

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Make tags available in 3D environment

Make tags changeable in the 3D environment

If tags are added, also add them in Flickr

Combine with other semantic databases (freebase, etc.)

Add more social features to the 3D environment Videos inside-picture tagging add a fixed vocabulary (dbpedia)

What else have we done

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Working on publications! We published about book-chapter „Museums on the Web:

Interaction with Visitors“ for a handbook called„Handbook of Research on Technologies and Cultural Heritage: Applications and Environments“

We will present our PhD-Progress at the ICWE 2010 Doctoral Consortium

Working on paper for the DIMEA 2010(Digital Interactive Media Entertainment and Arts) in Taiwan

Thank You!

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Questions?