Collaborative thesaurus tagging the Wikipedia way

dc.creatorVoss, Jakob
dc.date2006-04-10
dc.date2006-04-27
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:09:21Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:09:21Z
dc.descriptionThis paper explores the system of categories that is used to classify articles in Wikipedia. It is compared to collaborative tagging systems like del.icio.us and to hierarchical classification like the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). Specifics and commonalitiess of these systems of subject indexing are exposed. Analysis of structural and statistical properties (descriptors per record, records per descriptor, descriptor levels) shows that the category system of Wikimedia is a thesaurus that combines collaborative tagging and hierarchical subject indexing in a special way.
dc.description7 pages, 7 figures, 7 tables; v2 with added appendix and fixed references
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0604036
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0604036
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/111028
dc.subjectInformation Retrieval
dc.subjectDigital Libraries
dc.subjectH.3.1
dc.titleCollaborative thesaurus tagging the Wikipedia way
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