Folksonomy is an emerging technology that works to classify the information over WWW through tagging the bookmarks, photos or other web-based contents. It is understood to be organized by every user while not limited to the authors of the contents and the professional editors. This study surveyed the folksonomy as a complex network. The result indicates that the network, which is composed of the tags from the folksonomy, displays both properties of small world and scale-free. However, the statistics only shows a local and static slice of the vast body of folksonomy which is still evolving.

@misc{shen2005folksonomy, author = {Shen, Kaikai and Wu, Lide}, title = {Folksonomy as a Complex Network}, year = {2005}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IR/0509072}, keywords = {diploma_thesis, folksonomy_background}, abstract = {Folksonomy is an emerging technology that works to classify the information over WWW through tagging the bookmarks, photos or other web-based contents. It is understood to be organized by every user while not limited to the authors of the contents and the professional editors. This study surveyed the folksonomy as a complex network. The result indicates that the network, which is composed of the tags from the folksonomy, displays both properties of small world and scale-free. However, the statistics only shows a local and static slice of the vast body of folksonomy which is still evolving.} }

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@misc{citeulike:361498, author = {Shen, Kaikai and Wu, Lide}, title = {Folksonomy as a Complex Network}, year = {2005}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IR/0509072}, keywords = {summerschool, social, folksonomy, property, network, kdubiq} }

%0 = misc %A = Shen, Kaikai and Wu, Lide %D = 2005 %T = Folksonomy as a Complex Network %U = http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IR/0509072