Analysis and implementation of folksonomies in subject indexing of heritage material

Ivanjko, Tomislav. (2015). Analysis and implementation of folksonomies in subject indexing of heritage material. PhD Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of Information Science
Department of Information Science > Chair of librarianship.
(Poslijediplomski doktorski studij informacijskih i komunikacijskih znanosti) [mentor Špiranec, Sonja].

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Abstract

This thesis explores possible approaches in analysis and implementation of folksonomies in subject indexing of heritage materials, in order to examine user tags as a method complementing traditional subject access in the online environment. An in-depth analysis of the research field, identifying key authors, papers and concepts was undertaken along with the presentation of main models and structure of folksonomies. The context and particularities of implementing social tagging in the description of heritage materials as well as of crowdsourcing and games with a purpose were explored, covering selected heritage projects that succeeded in successful implementation of this notions. Research was undertaken using crowdsourcing methods, namely Game With a Purpose, a corpora of 14402 user tags on selected 80 heritage objects divided into 4 categories (library, archive, museum and photographs) was gathered for analysis. Statistical analysis of gathered corpora has shown that after a certain threshold is achieved, vocabulary base remains steady with only frequencies increasing. Linguistic analysis showed that a typical user tag consists of one word or phrase in singular, while content analysis identified most user tags as generic descriptors without added specific knowledge. User tags were compared to index terms from subject experts using the exact matching methods. A model of determining relevant user tags for a particular heritage object was defined and user tags obtained as a result were given back to the subject expert to evaluate their usefulness. Finally, a model of analysis and implementation of folksonomies in subject indexing of heritage materials was presented.

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