Crowdsourced Semantics with Semantic Tagging: “Don’t just tag it, LexiTag it!”
Csaba Veres · 2014
Abstract. Free form tagging was one of the most useful contributions of “Web2.0 ” toward the problem of content management and discovery on the web. Semantic tagging is a more recent but much less successful innovation borne of frustration at the limitations of free form tagging. In this paper we present LexiTags, a new platform designed to help realize the potential of semantic tagging for content management, and as a tool for crowdsourcing semantic metadata. We describe the operation of the LexiTags semantic bookmarking service, and present results from tools that exploit the semantic tags. These tools show that crowdsourcing can be used to model the taxonomy of an information space, and to semantically annotate resources within the space.