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A phenomenological framework for the relationship between the semantic web and user-centered tagging systems

Campbell, D. Grant (2006) A phenomenological framework for the relationship between the semantic web and user-centered tagging systems. In Furner, Jonathan and Tennis, Joseph T., Eds. Proceedings 17th Workshop of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group in Classification Research 17, Austin, Texas.

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Abstract

This paper uses Husserl’s theory of phenomenology to provide a model for the relationship between user-centered tagging systems, such as del.icio.us, and the more highly structured systems of the Semantic Web. Using three aspects of phenomenological theory—the movement of the mind out towards an entity and then back in an act of reflection, multiplicities within unity, and the sharing of intentionalities within a community—the discussion suggests that both tagging systems and the Semantic Web foster an intersubjective domain for the sharing and use of information resources. The Semantic Web, however, resembles traditional library systems, in that it relies for this intersubjective domain on the conscious implementation of domain-centered standards which are then encoded for machine processing, while tagging systems work on implied principles of emergence.

EPrint Type:Conference Paper
Keywords:semantic web, social tagging, phenomenological approach
Subjects:Philosophy
Classification
World Wide Web
Indexing
Knowledge Organization
ID Code:1838
Deposited On:06 April 2007
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