Enriching the library subject headings with folksonomy

• Published in: Electronic library Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 297 - 315
• Main Authors: Yu, Wei, Chen, Junpeng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Emerald Publishing Limited 13.05.2020; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Subjects: Academic libraries; Archives & records; Cataloging; Classification; Collaboration; Enrichment; Indexing; Information professionals; Knowledge organization; Librarians; Libraries; Library catalogs; Library metadata; Library Networks; Library of Congress Subject Headings; Semantics; Social research; Subject heading schemes; Subject headings; Tagging; Tags; Usability; User-generated content; Visibility; Vocabularies & taxonomies; Simultaneous weighted matrix factorization; Subject headings; Library subject headings; Social tags; Folksonomy

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of enriching the library subject headings with folksonomy for enhancing the visibility and usability of the library subject headings. Design/methodology/approach The WorldCat-million data set and SocialBM0311 are preprocessing and over 21...