Identification and exploitation of user communities for efficiently handling large-scale folksonomies

Projektinformationen

COMMUNITY FOLKS

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 254623

Projekt abgeschlossen

Startdatum 15 September 2010

Enddatum 14 März 2012

Finanziert unter

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Gesamtkosten € 131 427,40

EU-Beitrag € 131 427,40

Koordiniert durch

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Ziel

"For centuries, classification has been exploited by users to contextualize any aspect of human knowledge. An emerging way to classify objects is given by folksonomies. The term folksonomy is currently used to indicate a data structure that allows users to classify various kinds of resources by means of plain keywords freely chosen by them.
Folksonomies are gaining wide popularity but, although they overcome important weak points affecting taxonomy systems, they generally imply a lack of precision. In order to face this drawback, it would be useful to define a system capable of interactively supporting users in the folksonomy surfing. This project is collocated just in this context and aims at building a system for effectively searching and browsing user-generated content that has been freely described using tags. For this purpose, in this project we will define new techniques able to organize tags in a flexible hierarchical manner in order to strengthen the advantages of folksonomies with those offered by taxonomies, but avoiding all the taxonomy drawbacks. Furthermore, the project aims at studying how to discover hidden social ties among folksonomy users. The goals of this project are fully compliant with that of the research theme named ""Information and Communication Technologies"" (ICT) which has been recognized by European Commission as one of the main research areas in FP7. In particular, the project falls within the research fields named ""Digital Content Management"" and ""Personalised ICT systems""
described in FP7 factsheet. In fact, the research areas of this proposal are focused on the study of new techniques able to: (i) identify how folksonomy users generate contents and manage such knowledge in order to help them to search and browse it; (ii) produce personalised folksonomy views by exploiting the content generated by those users who share similar interests."

Programm/Programme

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Thema/Themen

• FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF - Marie Curie Action: "Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development"

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF
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Finanzierungsplan

MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)

Koordinator

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Kontakt Verwaltung

Greta Borg-Carbott (Ms.)

• EU-Beitrag: € 131 427,40
• Adresse: GOWER STREET ; WC1E 6BT LONDON ;
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: Keine Daten