Enriching user profiles using geo-social place semantics in geo-folksonomies

Enriching User Profiles using Geo-Social Place Semantics in Geo-Folksonomies

Enriching user profiles using geo-social place semantics in geo-folksonomies

Enriching user profiles using geo-social place semantics in geo-folksonomies Ehab ElGindy & Alia Abdelmoty To cite this article: Ehab ElGindy & Alia Abdelmoty (2014) Enriching user profiles using geosocial place semantics in geo-folksonomies, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 28:7, 1439-1458, DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2014.894194 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/1...

Dynamic Place Profiles from Geo-folksonomies on the GeoSocial Web

The growth of the Web and the increase in using GPS-enabled devices, coupled with the exponential growth of the social media sites, have led to a surge in research interest in Geo-folksonomy analysis. In Geo-Folksonomy, a user assigns an electronic tag to a geographical place resource identified by its longitude and latitude. The assigned tags are used to manage, categorize and describe place r...

Enhancing the Quality of Place Resources in Geo-folksonomies

Users’ interaction and collaboration on Web 2.0 via social bookmarking applications have resulted in creating a new structure of user-generated data, denoted folksonomies, where users, Web resources and tags generated by users are linked together. Some of those applications focus on geographic maps. They allow users to create and annotate geographic places and as such generate geo-folksonomies ...

Spatiotemporal user and place modelling on the geo-social web

Users of Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN) are giving away information about their whereabouts, and their interactions in the geographic space. In comparison to other types of personal data, location data are sensitive and can reveal user’s daily routines, activities, experiences and interests in the physical world. As a result, the user is facing an information overload that overburdens hi...