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Uses of explicit and implicit tags in social bookmarking

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  • Enrique Estellés Arolas
  • Fernando González Ladrón‐de‐Guevar

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Although Web 2.0 contains many tools with different functionalities, they all share a common social nature. One tool in particular, social bookmarking systems (SBSs), allows users to store and share links to different types of resources, i.e., websites, videos, images. To identify and classify these resources so that they can be retrieved and shared, fragments of text are used. These fragments of text, usually words, are called tags. A tag that is found on the inside of a resource text is referred to as an obvious or explicit tag. There are also nonobvious or implicit tags, which don't appear in the resource text. The purpose of this article is to describe the present situation of the SBSs tool and then to also determine the principal features of and how to use explicit tags. It will be taken into special consideration which HTML tags with explicit tags are used more frequently.

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  • Enrique Estellés Arolas & Fernando González Ladrón‐de‐Guevar, 2012. "Uses of explicit and implicit tags in social bookmarking," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 63(2), pages 313-322, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:63:y:2012:i:2:p:313-322
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.21663
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    1. Xuwei Pan & Shenglan He & Xiyong Zhu & Qingmiao Fu, 2016. "How users employ various popular tags to annotate resources in social tagging: An empirical study," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 67(5), pages 1121-1137, May.

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