Social Tagging: Exploring the Image, the Tags, and the Game

Konkova E., GÖKER S. A., Butterworth R., MacFarlane A.

KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION, cilt.41, sa.1, ss.57-65, 2014 (SSCI, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 41 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2014
  • Doi Numarası: 10.5771/0943-7444-2014-1-57
  • Dergi Adı: KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.57-65
  • Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Large image collections on the Web need to be organized for effective retrieval. Metadata has a key role in image retrieval but rely on professionally assigned tags which is not a viable option. Current content-based image retrieval systems have not demonstrated sufficient utility on large-scale image sources on the web, and are usually used as a supplement to existing text-based image retrieval systems. We present two social tagging alternatives in the form of photo-sharing networks and image labeling games. Here we analyze these applications to evaluate their usefulness from the semantic point of view, investigating the management of social tagging for indexing. The findings of the study have shown that social tagging can generate a sizeable number of tags that can be classified as interpretive for an image, and that tagging behaviour has a manageable and adjustable nature depending on tagging guidelines.