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Tags as keywords – comparison of the relative quality of tags and keywords
Article first published online: 18 NOV 2010
DOI: 10.1002/meet.2009.1450460247
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Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Volume 46, Issue 1, pages 1–19, 2009
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How to Cite
Syn, S. Y. and Spring, M. B. (2009), Tags as keywords – comparison of the relative quality of tags and keywords. Proc. Am. Soc. Info. Sci. Tech., 46: 1–19. doi: 10.1002/meet.2009.1450460247
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- Article first published online: 18 NOV 2010
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Abstract
Tags assigned by users are considered to have potential in categorizing web resources despite the fact that they do not use a controlled vocabulary and are contributed by non-experts. This study explores the potential of using tags to replace controlled vocabulary as a method of organizing web resources. Author-assigned keywords and users-assigned tags for a shared data collection are compared. The data was gathered from scientific papers that have both author-assigned keywords and user-assigned tags. Author-assigned keywords and user-assigned tags were compared using similarity measurements, classification systems, and clustering methods.