The SCOT(Social Semantic Cloud Of Tags) ontology is to semantically represent the structure and semantics of a collection of tags and to represent social networks among users based on the tags.

Tagging has proven successful ways to create metadata through human collective intelligence. It can be considered not only individual efforts for expressing their interests, but also a starting point for leveraging social networks through collaborative tagging with collecting among the individual tags.

The SCOT ontology consists of two main features. The First is social features of people who is participating tagging activities. The rest is semantics which consists of relationships among tags in given domain. We try to represent both information in our ontology model using Tagcloud class and Tag class. And also we use other RDF Vocabularies such as SIOC, SKOS, FOAF etc.

The following diagram shows the simplified model for the SCOT Ontology.