Title :
An Overview of Flickr Challenges and Research Opportunities
Author :
Spyrou, Evaggelos ; Mylonas, Phivos
Author_Institution :
Comput. Intell. Lab. (CIL), Inst. of Inf. & Telecommun., Athens, Greece
Abstract :
It is rather true that nowadays diversity and a potential for growth characterize the field of popular social networks like Flickr. Based on this observation, we provide herein a brief overview of the basic characteristics, challenges and research opportunities of the latter. Some historical facts of its origin are presented, followed by a review of its digital photo sharing and tagging capabilities, focusing on the most popular related research fields, like travel applications, knowledge extraction and human activity tracking. Throughout the paper the status of current research and directions for future research are highlighted in an effort to provide useful information to fellow researchers.
Keywords :
research and development; social networking (online); Flickr challenges; Flickr characteristics; Flickr research opportunities; digital photo sharing capabilities; digital photo tagging capabilities; historical facts; human activity tracking; knowledge extraction; research fields; social networks; travel applications; Cities and towns; Communities; Multimedia communication; Social network services; Tagging; Three-dimensional displays; Visualization; Flickr; human activity tracking; knowledge extraction; research opportunities; travel applications;
Conference_Titel :
Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP), 2014 9th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Corfu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-6813-8
DOI :
10.1109/SMAP.2014.19
