Collaborative tagging as distributed cognition

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Part of book or chapter of book 21 Sep 2006 Belgium English Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing CompanyJournal:Pragmatics & Cognition, volume 14, pages 287-292 (issn: 0929-0907, eissn: 1569-9943,

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Authors: Steels, Luc;

doi: 10.1075/pc.14.2.09ste , 10.1075/bct.16.08ste

handle: 10261/128264 , 20.500.14017/737b5cef-2af2-4e13-9a01-f115c7443a80

Collaborative tagging as distributed cognition

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Abstract

The paper discusses recent developments in web technologies based on collaborative tagging. This approach is seen as a tremendously powerful way to coordinate the ontologies and views of a large number of individuals, thus constituting the most successful tool for distributed cognition so far.

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Belgium

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Belgium

Keywords

Not available, Semiotic dynamics, Collaborative tagging, Distributed cognition

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