Social tagging - the essence of Web 2.0

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Authors

DRÁŠIL Pavel PITNER Tomáš

Year of publication 2008
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference MEKON 2008
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Field Informatics
Keywords Web 2.0; tagging; folksonomy
Description Within the last four or five years, the "Web 2.0" phenomenon has gained significant attention and is currently the driving force of web development. This article deals with social tagging, one of the typical Web 2.0 applications. Main principles of tagging are described together with the reasons that make tagging so popular and the problems that the uncontrolled nature of tagging may bring. Finally, possible usages of the mass of tagged resources are presented.
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