The SCOT(Social Semantic Cloud Of Tags) ontology is to semantically represent the structure and semantics of a collection of tags and to represent social networks among users based on the tags.
Users have very different opinions when it comes to tag clouds. Some like them, some can't stand to look at the mess. Whatever your feelings are, categorizing items (i.e. blog posts) using tags have become very popular and widely spread and can't be
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