TY - GEN
T1 - Social networking for scientists using tagging and shared bookmarks
T2 - 2008 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, CTS'08
AU - Pierce, Marlon E.
AU - Fox, Geoffrey C.
AU - Rosen, Joshua
AU - Maini, Siddharth
AU - Choi, Jong Y.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Web-based social networks, online personal profiles, keyword tagging, and online bookmarking are staples of Web 2.0-style applications. In this paper we report our investigation and implementation of these capabilities as a means for creating communities of like-minded faculty and researchers, particularly at minority serving institutions. Our motivating problem is to provide outreach tools that broaden the participation of these groups in funded research activities, particularly in cyberinfrastructure and e-Science. In this paper, we discuss the system design, implementation, social network seeding, and portal capabilities. Underlying our system, and folksonomy systems generally, is a graph-based data model that links external URLs, system users, and descriptive tags. We conclude with a survey of the applicability of clustering and other data mining techniques to these folksonomy graphs.
AB - Web-based social networks, online personal profiles, keyword tagging, and online bookmarking are staples of Web 2.0-style applications. In this paper we report our investigation and implementation of these capabilities as a means for creating communities of like-minded faculty and researchers, particularly at minority serving institutions. Our motivating problem is to provide outreach tools that broaden the participation of these groups in funded research activities, particularly in cyberinfrastructure and e-Science. In this paper, we discuss the system design, implementation, social network seeding, and portal capabilities. Underlying our system, and folksonomy systems generally, is a graph-based data model that links external URLs, system users, and descriptive tags. We conclude with a survey of the applicability of clustering and other data mining techniques to these folksonomy graphs.
KW - Collaboration
KW - Folksonomies
KW - Social networks
KW - Web 2.0
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=50949114424&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CTS.2008.4543939
DO - 10.1109/CTS.2008.4543939
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:50949114424
SN - 9781424422494
T3 - 2008 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, CTS'08
SP - 257
EP - 266
BT - 2008 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, CTS'08
Y2 - 19 May 2008 through 23 May 2008
ER -