%0 Conference Paper
%1 michlmayr2005case
%A Michlmayr, Elke
%B Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Network Analysis, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)
%D 2005
%K closely_related diploma_thesis ol_web2.0 emergentsemantics_evidence
%T A Case Study on Emergent Semantics in Communities
%U http://wit.tuwien.ac.at/people/michlmayr/index.html
%X This paper delivers a case study on the properties of meta- data provided by a folksonomy. We provide the background about folk- sonomies and discuss to which extend the process of creating meta-data in a folksonomy is related to the idea of emergent semantics as defined by the IFIP 2.6 Working Group on Data Semantics. We conduct exper- iments to analyse the meta-data provided by the del.icio.us folksonomy and to develop a method for selecting subsets of meta-data that adhere to the principle of interest-based locality, which was originally observed in peer-to-peer environments. In addition, we compare data provided by del.icio.us to data provided by the DMOZ taxonomy.