From folksonomies to ontologies: employing wisdom of the crowds to serve learning purposes

by Mathias Lux and Gisela Dosinger in International Journal of Knowledge and Learning Volume 3 Number 4/5
Is Web 2.0 just hype or just a buzzword, which might disappear in the near future? One way to find answers to these questions is to investigate the actual benefit of the Web 2.0 for real use cases. Within this contribution the authors study a very special aspect of the Web 2.0 – the folksonomy – and its use within self-directed learning. Guided by conceptual principles of emergent computing they point out methods which might be able to let semantics emerge from folksonomies and discuss the effect of the results in self-directed learning. (Original abstract)