TY - GEN
T1 - Controlled semantics versus social semantics
T2 - 10th International Conference on International Society for Knowledge Organization, ISKO 2008
AU - Qin, Jian
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Social semantics is more than just tags or vocabularies. It involves the users who contribute the tags, the perceptions of the world, and intentions that the tags are created for. Whilst social semantics is a valuable, massive data source for developing new knowledge systems or validating existing ones, there are also pitfalls and uncertainties. The epistemological analysis presented in this paper is an attempt to explain the differences and connections between social and controlled semantics from the perspective of knowledge theory. The epistemological connection between social and controlled semantics is particularly important: empirical knowledge can provide data source for testing the rational knowledge and rational knowledge can provide reliability and predictability. Such connection will have significant implications for future research on social and controlled semantics.
AB - Social semantics is more than just tags or vocabularies. It involves the users who contribute the tags, the perceptions of the world, and intentions that the tags are created for. Whilst social semantics is a valuable, massive data source for developing new knowledge systems or validating existing ones, there are also pitfalls and uncertainties. The epistemological analysis presented in this paper is an attempt to explain the differences and connections between social and controlled semantics from the perspective of knowledge theory. The epistemological connection between social and controlled semantics is particularly important: empirical knowledge can provide data source for testing the rational knowledge and rational knowledge can provide reliability and predictability. Such connection will have significant implications for future research on social and controlled semantics.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84901787063
SN - 9783899136449
T3 - Advances in Knowledge Organization
SP - 229
EP - 234
BT - Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization - Proceedings of the 10th International ISKO Conference
PB - International Society for Knowledge Organization
Y2 - 5 August 2008 through 8 August 2008
ER -