Folksonomies: structure and applications

• Autor(a) principal: Barros, Camila Monteiro de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Sales, Rodrigo de, Rosa, Renan Valdoir da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Informação & Informação
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/informacao/article/view/44218
• topic: Folksonomy; Knowledge organization systems; Information representation; Folksonomía; Sistemas de Organización del Conocimiento; Representación de la Información; Folksonomia (estrutura); Folksonomia (aplicação) Sistemas de Organização do Conhecimento; Representação da Informação

Objective: The aim of this research is to systematize folksonomies fundamental aspects, based on the literature. Methodology: It is a bibliographical research with quanti-qualitative data analysis. We analyzed 56 papers, from pair reviewed journals, published between 2009-2019, in Portuguese and English. Results: The largest number of publications occurred in the year 2018, and authors affiliated to Chinese institutions are more recurrent. Four main folksonomies approaches were mapped: focus on users, focus on information retrieval, focus on the information recommender systems, and focus on models for folksonomies' development and evaluation. The folksonomy structure is basically formed by terms and expressions provided by users to tag information resources, but it vary on the level of vocabulary control and definitions on what public is authorized to register tags. Conclusions: We conclude that folksonomies can be qualitatively improved using a semantic structure as basis, as for example tags categorization, in a way to maintain consistency and interoperability between different applications.