Peer-reviewed research paper

FaceTag: integrating bottom-up and top-down classification in a social tagging system

Research paper by: Emanuele Quintarelli, Reed Business Information
Andrea Resmini, University of Bologna, CIRSFID, Department of Law and Computer Sciences
Luca Rosati, University for Foreigners, Perugia, Informatics for Humanistic Science

Sunday March 25 2007, 1:45 - 2:30PM

FaceTag is a working prototype of a semantic collaborative tagging tool conceived for bookmarking Information Architecture resources. It aims to show how the widespread homogeneous and flat keywords' space created by users while tagging can be effectively mixed with a richer faceted classification scheme to improve the "information scent" and "berrypicking" capabilities of the system. The additional semantic structure is aggregated both implicitly observing user behaviour and explicitly introducing a compelling user experience that facilitates the end-user creation of relationships between tags.