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GroupMe! - A New Kind Of Social Tagging System

06. December 2007
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The Semantic Web Group at the Distributed Systems Institute of the University of Hannover has developed a prototype for a new kind of social tagging system named GroupMe!. The idea is to extend flat social tagging systems like del.icio.us or flickr by a group extension which facilitates the extraction of semantics:

a folksonomy is just a collection of tag assignments:
(User, Tag, Resource) = User has tagged Resource with Tag at a particular time.

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