Combating Social Bookmarking Pollution

Combating Social Bookmarking Pollution

Social Bookmarking (SBM) is one of the most widely used Web services. An SBM website displays and shares each user’s bookmarks. The SBM service aggregates the number of users who bookmark a given Web page and provides useful information as a result of these aggregations. However, an increase in the popularity of the SBM service and in the number of the users of the SBM service results in an inc...

Social Semantic Bookmarking

In this paper we present the novel paradigm of Social Semantic Bookmarking. Social Semantic Bookmarking combines the positive aspects of semantic annotation with those of social bookmarking and tagging while avoiding their respective drawbacks like the cumbersome maintenance of ontologies or the lacking semantic precision of tags. Social semantic bookmarking tools allow for the annotation of in...

Social bookmarking and exploratory search

In this paper, we explore various search tasks that are supported by a social bookmarking service. These bookmarking services hold great potential to powerfully combine personal tagging of information sources with interactive browsing, resulting in better social navigation. While there has been considerable interest in social tagging systems in recent years, little is known about their actual u...

Experten-Empfehlungen mit Social Bookmarking-Services (Expert Recommendations with Social Bookmarking-Services)

Combating Social Handicap

Report on a group of parents with handicapped children who came together to organise activities to overcome their childrens' lack of social education.