Information about the relative biodiversity value of different waterbody types is a vital pre-
requisite for many strategic conservation goals. In practice, however, exceptionally few inter …

This paper describes and compares the most relevant approaches for associating tags with
semantics in order to make explicit the meaning of those tags. We identify a common set of …

This paper introduces MOAT, a lightweight Semantic Web framework that provides a
collaborative way to let Web 2.0 content producers give meanings to their tags in a …

Social tagging systems have grown in popularity over the Web in the last years on account
of their simplicity to categorize and retrieve content using open-ended tags. The increasing …

As the popularity of the web increases, particularly the use of social networking sites and
style sharing platforms, users are becoming increasingly connected, sharing more and more …

Collaborative tagging systems are now popular tools for organising and sharing information
on the Web. While collaborative tagging offers many advantages over the use of controlled …

While the increasing popularity of folksonomies has lead to a vast quantity of tagged data,
resource retrieval in these systems is limited by them being agnostic to the meaning (ie …

As social tagging applications continuously gain in popularity, it becomes more and more
accepted that models and tools for (re-) organizing tags are needed. Some first approaches …

Peer-to-peer systems are evolving with new information-system architectures, leading to the
idea that the principles of decentralization and self-organization will offer new approaches in …

Collaborative tagging systems are becoming very popular recently. Web users use freely-
chosen tags to describe shared resources, resulting in a folksonomy One problem of …