SCOT is an acronym for Social Semantic Cloud of Tags. The name was chosen to emphasise the goal of providing a consistent framework for expressing social tagging at a semantic level in machine-understandable way.
The SCOT ontology provides a model for expressing the main concepts and properties required to describe information for tagging activities (e.g., users, tags, resources, etc.) on the Semantic Web. This document contains a detailed description of the SCOT Ontology.
The formal model of Folksonomy F may be as following:
F = (P, T, R, Y),
where, P : the set of People
T : the set of Words(i.e. “Tags”)
R : the set of Resources
Y \subset P \times T \times R : it represents “tagging”.
The above formal model is based on the Triadic context of Formal Concept Analysis.