Extracting linked data thesaurus structure from tag wikis

Some may have noticed my edits to tag wikis where I added links to Wikipedia, E-LIS, GND etc.) and links between tags, prefixed with arrows (↓/↑). I wrote a set of scripts to extract tag wikis from StackExchange and create

• an SKOS/RDF concept scheme of tags at libraries.stackexchange (in RDF/Turtle).
• a graphica href="https://github.com/nichtich/se2skos/blob/master/data/libraries/tag-graph.svg" rel="nofollow">visualization of links between tags (as SVG with hyperlinks).

This is how a tag graph looks like:

I would not, however, create tag wikis for tags will less than two questions. We should not create a top-down thesaurus of tags but let the vocabulary evolve with the questions.

P.S: I have since published the paper and given a presentation:

Jakob Voß. 2012. Linking Folksonomies to Knowledge Organization Systems. In Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR '12). Springer, pages 89-97. [DOI] [HTML] [PDF] [Slides]

Jakob

• discussion
• tags
• controlled-vocabulary

Comments

• jonsca: Wow, that's awesome! What programs can import those data files?
• Jakob: That fully depends on the use case and I can also create other formats. I have written a paper draft that mentions use cases (feel free to comment on it!): information retrieval, discovery of related resources and scientometric analysis.