Correlating User Profiles from Multiple Folksonomies Martin Szomszor Iván Cantador Harith Alani School of Electronics and Escuela Politécnica Superior, School of Electronics and Computer Science Universidad Autónoma de Computer Science University of Southampton, Madrid University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK Campus de Contoblanco, SO17 1BJ, UK
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[email protected] [email protected] ABSTRACT Keywords As the popularity of the web increases, particularly the use folksonomy-alignment, tag-filtering, Web2.0, user profiling of social networking sites and Web2.0 style sharing plat- forms, users are becoming increasingly connected, sharing more and more information, resources, and opinions. This 1. INTRODUCTION vast array of information presents unique opportunities to While the future evolution of the Web is subject of much harvest knowledge about user activities and interests through speculation, recent trends suggest an increasing importance the exploitation of large-scale, complex systems. Communal of social networking sites. Much like the dot-com surge tagging sites, and their respective folksonomies, are one ex- in the late 1990s opened new opportunities to businesses ample of such a complex system, providing huge amounts of through the proliferation of e-commerce, social networking information about users, spanning multiple domains of in- is revolutionising the internet by empowering users with the terest. However, the current Web infrastructure provides no means to share ideas, opinions and resources. Personal shar- mechanism for users to consolidate and exploit this informa- ing and communication have reached unprecedented levels tion since it is spread over many desperate and unconnected as users become more comfortable with the idea of shar- resources.