WWW 2006, Edinburgh
Collaborative Web Tagging Workshop
Call for Papers and Participation
Contact: [frank AT rawsugar DOT com]

Goal and Topics of Interests

The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together in order to explore both the social and technical issues and challenges involved in Web tagging. We plan to address not only the current state of collaborative tagging, and understand its attractiveness to early adopters but also discuss its future.

Topics of interest for the workshop include:

* Semantics and Vocabulary: How can collaborative tagging be used in the creation of ontologies and the semantic web? What are tagging�s benefits and limitations in this domain? How can meaning be faithfully preserved when disparate tag sets are integrated? Is there a place in tagging for controlled vocabulary? Is it necessary to match synonymous tags, and if so, how can this be accomplished technically? Are there other mechanisms that can extend tagging to provide some of the capabilities of hierarchies without the drawbacks?
* Measurement: What is the structure of tagspace? What behavioral patterns do users display when tagging, and how can the entire space of objects and tags be understood and visualized?
* Standardization efforts: Although very little of this has been done currently, current services are somehow interoperable through the use of RSS or Atom feeds. What could be the benefits of tagging standards and what would they be?
* Scalable architecture for tagging: What will happen when millions of users will tag, how about hundreds of millions? What kind of architecture can deal with billions of objects? Can current tagging concepts be applied to such scales?
* Multimedia: Are there special considerations for tagging multimedia such as photos, videos and audio? Yahoo photos now already has over two billion photographs.
* Search and Navigation: How can tagging improve internet search? How are tags used as a mechanism for navigation and discovery of content?
* Discovery paradigms: How to search, browse a tagged universe? What is the use of faceted search, people search, etc.?
* Blogging: What is the relationship between tagging and blogging?� How do these two methods of adding personalized organization to web content affect how that content is found, navigated, used and interpreted by others?
* Interfaces: Using boolean operators like AND, OR and NOT on sets of tags rapidly grows complex and confusing, especially for nontechnical users. How can good interface design simplify and clarify these complex operations?

Important Dates:

Individual workshop submissions deadline: 10 January 2006 29 January 2006

Acceptance notifications to authors of workshop papers: 1 February 2006

Final workshop program available: 1 March 2006

Workshop date: 22 May 2006

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