At heart, a blog is just a database...But most blogs only divide up the information by time...for a reader, it's probably the least interesting way of reading. I've turned Ishbadiddle into a semantic web...categorized, coded, 1,385 keywords...
While professionally created metadata are often considered of high quality, it is costly in terms of time and effort to produce. User created metadata is a third approach, and this paper focuses on grassroots community classification of digital assets.
Social bookmark tools are rapidly emerging on the Web. In such systems users are setting up lightweight conceptual structures called folksonomies. The reason for their immediate success is the fact that no specific skills are needed for participating. At