WWW 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland
May 22/23, 2006
Collaborative Web Tagging Workshop
Call for Paper and Participation
URL: http://www.rawsugar.com/www2006/cfp.html
Contact: [frank@rawsugar.com]
Chairs:
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Frank Smadja, RawSugar. http://www.rawsugar.com <http://www.rawsugar.com/>
Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo Research.
Scott Golder, HP Labs.
Program Committee:
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Eytan Adar, University of Washington.
Michael Cafarella, University of Washington
Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research
Jonathan Feinberg, IBM Research, Cambridge
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
R. Guha, Google
Yoelle Maarek, IBM Research, Haifa Israel.
Vova Soroka, IBM Research, Haifa Israel
Background
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There has recently there been a great surge of interest in collaborative
tagging as a means of facilitating knowledge sharing in social computing.
Collaborative tagging refers to the process in which a community of users
adds meta-information in the form of keywords or tags to Web content such as
web pages, links, photographs and audio files on a centralized web server.
While collaborative tagging is only starting to be researched in the
research community, it seems to address a real need on the Web as
demonstrated by the growing popularity of tagging and annotation sites (see
del.icio.us, flickr, technorati, RawSugar, Shadows, etc.); the most popular
sites already have a combined user base of several millions. The philosophy
of what is called Web 2.0, the social Web or also the two-way Web is that
users can and should be content creators as well as consumers and it
suggests that there is a great deal of untapped potential for tagging to
improve how web content is organized, navigated and experienced. Yet it is
not yet clear how it will evolve and how it will scale, when, if at all, its
usage base will go beyond early adopters. There are many open questions
about what tagging can and cannot do, especially for a larger, mainstream
web community and we would like to explore that in our workshop.
Goal and Topics of Interests
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The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together
in order to explore both the social and technical issues and challenges
involved in Web tagging. We plan to address not only the current state of
collaborative tagging, and understand its attractiveness to early adopters
but also discuss its future.
Topics of interest for the workshop include:
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* Semantics and Vocabulary: How can collaborative tagging be used in the
creation of ontologies and the semantic web? What are tagging's benefits and
limitations in this domain? How can meaning be faithfully preserved when
disparate tag sets are integrated? Is there a place in tagging for
controlled vocabulary? Is it necessary to match synonymous tags, and if so,
how can this be accomplished technically? Are there other mechanisms that
can extend tagging to provide some of the capabilities of hierarchies
without the drawbacks?
* Measurement: What is the structure of tagspace? What behavioral
patterns do users display when tagging, and how can the entire space of
objects and tags be understood and visualized?
* Standardization efforts: Although very little of this has been done
currently, current services are somehow interoperable through the use of RSS
or Atom feeds. What could be the benefits of tagging standards and what
would they be?
* Scalable architecture for tagging: What will happen when millions of
users will tag, how about hundreds of millions? What kind of architecture
can deal with billions of objects? Can current tagging concepts be applied
to such scales?
* Multimedia: Are there special considerations for tagging multimedia
such as photos, videos and audio? Yahoo photos now already has over two
billion photographs.
* Search and Navigation: How can tagging improve internet search? How
are tags used as a mechanism for navigation and discovery of content?
* Discovery paradigms: How to search, browse a tagged universe? What is
the use of faceted search, people search, etc.?
* Blogging: What is the relationship between tagging and blogging?? How
do these two methods of adding personalized organization to web content
affect how that content is found, navigated, used and interpreted by others?
* Interfaces: Using Boolean operators like AND, OR and NOT on sets of
tags rapidly grows complex and confusing, especially for non technical
users. How can good interface design simplify and clarify these complex
operations?
Workshop Presenter Selection Process:
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We will solicit submissions to present work to the workshop, and submissions
will be evaluated by the organizing committee.
Because collaborative tagging on the web is relatively young and has
received relatively little scholarly attention, we encourage contributions
from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds, including computer science and
engineering, sociology, anthropology and linguistics, and communications and
library science.
Despite the novelty of collaborative tagging, we seek contributions with
demonstrable results, as well as purely theoretical pieces. These results
may consist of designs and prototypes for future tagging systems,
quantitative or qualitative analyses of existing systems, or solutions for
technical challenges facing tagging. Though speculative or theoretical
contributions will be considered, we will require that they be well-grounded
in previous research or practice.
How to submit a paper/proposal for the workshop:
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For research in progress work, each candidate will email to [frank AT
rawsugar DOT com] in PDF format:
* A short bio (less than one half page)
* A position paper or extended abstract (less than 5 pages) including
references and figures.
For system presentations/demos, each candidate will email to [frank AT
rawsugar DOT com] in PDF format:
* A short bio (less than one half page)
* A description of the system to be demoed (less than 3 pages)
* If available, a demo of the system in some format.
Submissions will be reviewed by the organizing committee and invitations to
present will be sent accordingly. Authors of accepted submissions will be
requested to submit a longer version for inclusion in the Working Notes to
be distributed during the workshop.
Format:
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Papers should be emailed to [frank AT rawsugar DOT com] preferably in PDF
format and alternatively in HTML or MS Word.
Papers should be formatted according to the standard ACM templates available
at http://www2006.org/cfp/submissions.php, for example the MS Word template
is in?http://www2006.org/cfp/www2006-submission.doc; and then converted to
pdf. Open Office (http://www.openoffice.org/) can be used to export standard
formats to PDF.
Important Dates:
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Individual workshop submissions deadline: 10 January 2006
Acceptance notifications to authors of workshop papers: 1 February 2006
Final workshop program available: 15 February 2006
Workshop date: May 22 (Mon) or May 23 (Tue), 2006
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