The Metadata Triumvirate: Social Annotations, Anchor Texts and Search Queries

Author

Noll, Michael G. ; Meinel, Christoph

Author_Institution

Hasso-Plattner-Inst. an der Univ. Potsdam, Potsdam

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

640

Lastpage

647

Abstract

In this paper, we study and compare three different but related types of metadata about Web documents: social annotations provided by readers of Web documents, hyperlink anchor text provided by authors of Web documents, and search queries of users trying to find Web documents. We introduce a large research data set called CABS120k, which we have created for this study from a variety of information sources such as AOL500k, the Open Directory Project, del.icio.us/Yahoo!, Google and the WWW in general. We use this data set to investigate several characteristics of said metadata including length, novelty, diversity, and similarity and discuss theoretical and practical implications.

Keywords

document handling; meta data; query processing; text analysis; Open Directory Project; Web documents; hyperlink anchor text; metadata triumvirate; search queries; social annotations; Data mining; Indexing; Information resources; Information retrieval; Intelligent agent; Privacy; Sampling methods; Search engines; Tagging; World Wide Web; anchor text; aol500k; cabs120k08; comparison; del.icio.us; delicious; google; metadata; open directory; pagerank; search query; social web; study; tagging; tags;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2008. WI-IAT '08. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3496-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WIIAT.2008.341

Filename

4740524