Linking Folksonomies and Ontologies for Supporting Knowledge Sharing: a State of the Art

Freddy Limpens (1) , Fabien Gandon (1) , Michel Buffa (2)

1 Edelweiss - Exchanges, Documents, Extraction, Languages, Web, Ergonomics, Interactions, Semantics, Servers
2 Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux, et Systèmes de Sophia-Antipolis (I3S) / Equipe KEWI

Social tagging systems have recently become very popular as a means to classify large sets of resources shared among on-line communities over the social Web. However, the folksonomies resulting from the use of these systems revealed limitations: tags are ambiguous and their spelling may vary, and folksonomies are difficult to exploit in order to retrieve or exchange information. This report compares the recent attempts to overcome these limitations and to support the use of folksonomies with formal languages and ontologies from the Semantic Web.

Mots clés: Folksonomies; Ontologies; Partage de Connaissances

Domaines: Web

Freddy Limpens, Fabien Gandon, Michel Buffa. Linking Folksonomies and Ontologies for Supporting Knowledge Sharing: a State of the Art. 2009. ⟨hal-00530371⟩