Contextual Syndication Based on Tag Correspondences: a Case Study of Flickr

Abstract

Most of knowledge management systems have been employing syndication services for distributing relevant information to people. However, similar to subscribing traditional mailing lists, such content delivering services are not taking into account context (or semantics) of the contents. Thereby, to deal with the problem, this study proposes a context overlay network architecture for context matching between tags obtained from various social networking systems. It is referred to as "shared" context awareness process. Thus, we can identify a community of practice (CoP) among online users with respect to contexts. As a result, new information can be automatically distributed through the social media of which context is relevant to the knowledge without any queries from the online users.