Following the recommendation from Steve Cayzer's Blog, I was reading a research paper on collaborative tagging systems by Scott A. Golder and Bernardo A. Huberman at HP Labs and found this interesting quote that I like very much:
Without ontologies search formulation like this would be quite complicated.
Keywords: semantic-web, ontologies
Update: Oct 5, 05: Without mentioning about ontologies, the authors suggested that for collaborative taggings the semantic ambiguity problem will be less significant once a critical mass is reached, the state at which a large number of tags are widely agreed upon by the community. The opportunity to learn from one another [e.g. through "suggested tags" and "popular tags" on del.icio.us] is also suggested to be an influential factor.
searching for employment at Apple may be problematic because of conflicts with the CEO’s surname.
Without ontologies search formulation like this would be quite complicated.
Keywords: semantic-web, ontologies
Update: Oct 5, 05: Without mentioning about ontologies, the authors suggested that for collaborative taggings the semantic ambiguity problem will be less significant once a critical mass is reached, the state at which a large number of tags are widely agreed upon by the community. The opportunity to learn from one another [e.g. through "suggested tags" and "popular tags" on del.icio.us] is also suggested to be an influential factor.
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