Evolution of Social Networks Based on Tagging Practices

Abstract

Websites that provide content creation and sharing features have become quite popular recently. These sites allow users to categorize and browse content using "tags" or free-text keyword topics. Since users contribute and tag social media content across a variety of social web platforms, creating new knowledge from distributed tag data has become a matter of performing various tasks, including publishing, aggregating, integrating, and republishing tag data. In this paper, we introduce an object-centered social network based on tagging practices across different sources, and then we show how this network can be built and emerged over time.