Linking folksonomy to Library of Congress subject headings: an exploratory study

• Published in: Journal of documentation Vol. 65; no. 6; pp. 872 - 900
• Main Authors: Yi, Kwan, Mai Chan, Lois
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley Emerald Group Publishing Limited 16.10.2009; Emerald
• Subjects: Algorithms; Authority control; Bibliographic Databases; Bibliographic records; Collaboration; Content analysis; Employment; Exact sciences and technology; Guidelines; Indexing; Indexing. Classification. Abstracting; Indexing. Classification. Abstracting. Syntheses; Information and communication sciences; Information and document structure and analysis; Information Processing; Information processing and retrieval; Information science. Documentation; Internet; Keywords; Knowledge organization; Libraries; Library of Congress Subject Headings; Metadata; Nouns; Sciences and techniques of general use; Subject heading lists; Subject heading schemes; Tagging; Users (Information); Vocabularies & taxonomies; Websites; Word Frequency; Tagging; Subject heading lists; Internet; Controlled vocabulary; Subject heading; Folksonomy; Knowledge organization; Information management

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the linking of a folksonomy (user vocabulary) and LCSH (controlled vocabulary) on the basis of word matching, for the potential use of LCSH in bringing order to folksonomies.Design methodology approach - A selected sample of a folksonomy from a p...