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User Generated Content , Folksonomies and how they can be combined. Max Arends max @ ec.tuwien.ac.at Electronic Commerce Group VSEM – The Virtual 3D Social Experience Museum. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems Vienna University of Technology
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User GeneratedContent, Folksonomies and howtheycanbecombined Max Arends max@ec.tuwien.ac.at Electronic Commerce GroupVSEM – The Virtual 3D Social Experience Museum Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems Vienna University of Technology Favoritenstrasse 9-11/188-1 . 1040 Vienna . Austria/Europe Tel: +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 2
Folksonomy • Advantages compared to fixedvocabularyclassification: • Everyusercanparticipate • Searchkeywordsaregivenbythoseuserswhoactuallyusethem • Hiddeninformation and contextismadeavailable
Folksonomy • Disadvantages • Not a definedapproach of indexing • df Book buch bookschristianheilmann bücherdustindiaz javascript php Windows Bücherregal bush?
Otherways to get tags: Opencalais • A Thomson Reuters initative • Launched in January 2008 • Ingestsunstructued text and returns RDF formattedresultsidentifying • Entities • Facts • Events • Let‘ssee an easyexample of whatOpencalaisiscapable of...
so what do wehave, what do wewant? • Wehave: • Information from WGA aboutpaintings: • Author,place and year of birth, death, title, date, technique, location, form, type, school, timeline and a description! • About 20.000paintingsarecategorized • Wewant: • Tags and informationthatisnotobvious
In order to getfurtherinformation, wemakeuse of • Opencalais • Flickr • Image Matching • Youtube • Weeventriedtwitter
Outlook • Make tags available in 3D environment • Make tags changeable in the 3D environment • If tags areadded, also addthem in Flickr • Combinewithothersemanticdatabases (freebase, etc.) • Addmoresocialfeatures to the 3D environment • Videos • inside-picturetagging • add a fixedvocabulary (dbpedia)
Whatelsehavewedone • Working on publications! • Wepublishedaboutbook-chapter „Museums on the Web: Interaction withVisitors“for a handbookcalled„Handbook of Research on Technologies and CulturalHeritage: Applications and Environments“ • We will presentourPhD-Progress at theICWE 2010 DoctoralConsortium • Working on paperfortheDIMEA 2010(Digital Interactive Media Entertainment and Arts) in Taiwan
ThankYou! • Questions?