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The synonym issue is an inherent barrier in human-computer communication, and it is more challenging in a Web 2.0 application, especially in social tagging applications. In an effort to resolve the issue, the goal of this study is to test the feasibility of a Web 2.0 application as a potential source for synonyms. This study investigates a way of identifying similar tags from a popular collaborative tagging application, Delicious. Specifically, we propose an algorithm (FolkSim) for measuring the similarity of social tags from Delicious. We compared FolkSim to a cosine-based similarity method and observed that the top-ranked tags on the similar list generated by FolkSim tend to be among the best possible similar tags in given choices. Also, the lists appear to be relatively better than the ones created by CosSim. We also observed that tag folksonomy and similar list resemble each other to a certain degree so that it possibly serves as an alternative outcome, especially in case the FolkSim-based list is unavailable or infeasible.

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This study aims to answer whether social tagging through user collaboration could be utilized for the creation of digital knowledge of the web, and whether we could verify the quality and efficacy of social tagging to obtain benefits from it. In particular, this paper examines the inter-indexer consistency of social tagging in comparison to professional indexing. It employs two different similarity measures, both of which are based on the Vector Space Model to deal with numerous indexers. It contributes to the utilization of social tagging in the organization of the web, and encourages to adopt social knowledge in developing suitable vocabularies for resources newly generated in the digital library environment. Furthermore, the comparative analysis with two different measures produced more credible results by illustrating a similar pattern of indexing tendency in both measures.

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본 연구는 도서관 장서의 분류를 위하여 기존의 문헌 분류체계 대신 주제어 기반의 분류를 적용하고자 할 때 필수적인 주제명 개발의 필요성을 논하고, 개발 방법론의 하나로 기존의 다양한 지식조직체계의 주제어를 활용하는 방법의 가능성을 모색하는데 목적이 있다. 이를 위하여 분석 대상 저작을 선정하고 이에 대하여 부여된 문헌분류, 주제명표목, 국내외 대형 서점의 분류, 서가명 및 주제어, 이용자 태그 등 다양한 지식조직체계의 주제어를 수집하여 그 특성을 비교 분석하였다. 이러한 분석의 결과, 전통적인 도서관 중심의 지식조직체계와 상업성이 중심이 되는 지식조직체계의 성격과 범주화의 방식이 다름을 확인할 수 있었다. 한편, 이용자 태그는 최상위 빈도수의 태그인 경우 전통적인 지식조직체계 및 상업적 영역의 지식조직체계와 어휘의 측면에서 거의 차이가 없는 결과를 나타냈으나, 이용자 중심의 주제어로서 독특한 특성을 가지고 있음을 파악하였다. 이러한 분석을 바탕으로 분류를 대체하는 주제명 작성을 위해 기존의 지식조직체계를 활용할 때 고려해야 할 각각의 특성 및 상호 관계를 분석하였고, 국내에서의 적용을 위한 실질적인 고려사항을 제안하였다.

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This study aims to analyse the necessity of the subject heading construction for the word based classification and to suggest a methodology that uses various knowledge organization systems(KOS). For this purpose, six kinds of KOS were collected for the 20 selected works in each subject. The collected subjects were analysed in terms of constructing a subject heading for the word based classification. The result of the analysis shows that there is a noticeable difference between the library oriented KOS and commercial oriented KOS. In addition, user oriented tags are more similar to the commercial sector's concerning subject categorization than the library oriented ones. However, there is no noticeable difference among the library oriented KOS, commercial sector oriented KOS, and user oriented tags regarding the subject vocabulary. Some practical implications were suggested for the application to the Korean libraries based on the findings of this study.