cloudalicious: folksonomy over time

ABSTRACT

Cloudalicious is an online visualization tool that has been designed to give insight into how Òtag cloudsÓ, or folksonomies, develop over time. A folksonomy is an organic system of text labels attributed to an object by the users of that object. The most common object so far to be the subject of this tagging has been the online bookmark. Stabilization of a URL's tag cloud over time is the clearest result of this type of visualization. Any diagonal movement on the graphs, indicative of a change in the tags being used to describe a URL, should garner further discussion.

REFERENCES

• 1: Coates, T. Two cultures of fauxonomies collide. http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/06/two_cultures_of_fauxonomies_collide.shtml 2005.
• 2: Russell, T. Cloudalicious. http://cloudalicio.us 2005.
• 3: Schachter, J. Del.icio.us. http://del.icio.us 2005.
• 4: Speroni, P. On tag clouds, metric, tag sets and power laws. http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/25/tag-clouds-metric/ 2005.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.5 On-line Information Services
          Subjects: Web-based services

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.4 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS
      H.4.3 Communications Applications
          Subjects: Information browsers

General Terms:
Documentation, Measurement

Keywords:
categorization, classification, folksonomy, tagging, visualization