Currently proposed tagging ontologies are mostly focused on
the definition of a common schema for representing the agents involved in
a tagging process. In this paper we describe preliminary research around
the idea of extending tagging ontologies by incorporating some domain
specific class definitions and relations. We illustrate our idea with a par-
ticular use case where a tag recommendation system is driven by such
an ontology. Besides our use case, we believe that such extended tagging
ontologies ...
Currently proposed tagging ontologies are mostly focused on
the definition of a common schema for representing the agents involved in
a tagging process. In this paper we describe preliminary research around
the idea of extending tagging ontologies by incorporating some domain
specific class definitions and relations. We illustrate our idea with a par-
ticular use case where a tag recommendation system is driven by such
an ontology. Besides our use case, we believe that such extended tagging
ontologies can bring more meaningful structure into folksonomies and
improve browsing and organisation functionalities of online platforms
relying on tagging systems.
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