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Who are these folks in my folksonomy?!

Who are these folks in my folksonomy?!. Social networks for trustworthy metadata. Stan James stan@lijit.com. University of Osnabrück Outfoxed AttentionTrust.org Lijit. Who’s this guy?. very cool. Folksonomy Overview. Brief History of Metadata Challenges of Folksonomies

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Who are these folks in my folksonomy?!

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  1. Who are these folks in my folksonomy?! Social networks for trustworthy metadata Stan James stan@lijit.com

  2. University of Osnabrück Outfoxed AttentionTrust.org Lijit Who’s this guy? very cool

  3. Folksonomy Overview • Brief History of Metadata • Challenges of Folksonomies • A social solution? • Lijit

  4. Brief History of Metadata

  5. Self categorization You-onomy?

  6. Taxonomies Categorizing • They don’t scale well • Can’t adapt

  7. Challenges of Taxonomies “Ghost Riding”

  8. Keywords/Tags knitting, sewing, clothes, blanket <meta>

  9. Folksonomy 1 mp3, sex, drugs, rock ‘n roll, britney spears, naked, cracks, games, nude, …

  10. Folksonomy 2 knitting, sewing blanket, crafts knitting, cute crafts, knitting

  11. Folksonomy 2 knitting, sewing blanket, crafts knitting, cute crafts, knitting TRUST …kinda like PageRank

  12. Folksonomy Success Stories

  13. Why do Folksonomies work? • Wittgenstein’s Language Game Tag convergence

  14. You-onomy Folksonomy 2 Taxonomy Folksonomy 1 Recap

  15. Challenges of Folksonomies

  16. Different strokes for different follks funny humorous humerous boring

  17. Different strokes for different follks “bass”

  18. A warning • Remember Newsgroups? rec.news.linux rec.music.alternative alt.movies.scifi

  19. Other folks “When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer.” – Xeni Jardin (Wired) http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69366,00.html

  20. Other folks                                                                                                                                      vs. our only options?

  21. A Social Solution?

  22. Other folks               

  23. Other folks  Nerds   You   Knitters    Locals

  24. Small Worlds Watts & Strogatz 1998

  25. Small Worlds Universal

  26. Lijit demo …formerly:

  27. Recap

  28. Thanks for your attention. www.lijit.com stan@lijit.com

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