FAsTA: A Folksonomy-Based Automatic Metadata Generator

Folksonomies provide a free source of keywords describing web resources, however, these keywords are free form and unstructured. In this paper, we describe a novel tool that converts folksonomy tags into semantic metadata, and present a case study consisting of a framework for evaluating the usefulness of this metadata within the context of a particular eLearning application. The evaluation shows the number of ways in which the generated semantic metadata adds value to the raw folksonomy tags.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ECTEL
• Authors: Hend S. Al-Khalifa, Hugh C. Davis
• Keywords: ECTEL 2007, Folksonomy Tags, Generated Semantic Metadata, Semantic Metadata