Folksonomy Indexing From the Assignment of Free Tags to Setup Subject: A Search Analysis into the Domain of Legal History

José-Antonio Moreiro-González; Carmen Bolaños-Mejías

doi:10.5771/0943-7444-2018-7-574

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  - 547–558 The Role of Visualization in the Shaping and Exploration of the Individual Information Space: Part 1 Veslava Osinska, Malgorzata Kowalska, Zbigniew Osinski Veslava Osinska, Malgorzata Kowalska, Zbigniew Osinski 547–558
  - 559–573 Revision of the National Classification System through Cooperative Efforts: A Case of Korean Decimal Classification 6th Edition (KDC 6) Dong-Geun Oh Dong-Geun Oh 559–573
  - 574–585 Folksonomy Indexing From the Assignment of Free Tags to Setup Subject: A Search Analysis into the Domain of Legal History José-Antonio Moreiro-González, Carmen Bolaños-Mejías José-Antonio Moreiro-González, Carmen Bolaños-Mejías 574–585
- 586–639 Reviews of Concepts in Knowledge Organization 586–639
  - 586–608 Ideal Language Steven Laporte Steven Laporte 586–608
  - 609–639 Indexing: Concepts and Theory Birger Hjørland Birger Hjørland 609–639
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Folksonomy Indexing From the Assignment of Free Tags to Setup Subject: A Search Analysis into the Domain of Legal History

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José-Antonio Moreiro-González Carmen Bolaños-Mejías

DOI
- doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2018-7-574
- ISSN: 0943-7444
- ISSN online: 2942-3309
Abstract

The behaviour and lexical quality of the folksonomies is examined by comparing two online social networks: LibraryThing (for books) and Flickr (for photos). We presented a case study that combines quantitative and qualitative elements, singularized by the lexical and functional framework. Our query was made by “Legal History” and by the synonyms “Law History” and “History of Law.” We then examined the relevance, consistency and precision of the tags attached to the retrieved documents, in addition to their lexical composition. We identified the difficulties caused by free tagging and some of the folksonomy solutions that have been found to solve them. The results are presented in comparative tables, giving special attention to related tags within each retrieved document. Although the number of ambiguous or inconsistent tags is not very large, these do nevertheless represent the most obvious problem to search and retrieval in folksonomies. Relevance is high when the terms are assigned by especially competent taggers. Even with less expert taggers, ambiguity is often successfully corrected by contextualizing the concepts within related tags. A propinquity to associative and taxonomic lexical semantic knowledge is reached via contextual relationships.
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