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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.

• Tags Cloud

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• About

  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.

• Related Work

  • Richard Newman’s Tag Ontology
  • SIOC Project
  • Tag Commons Working Group
  • TagCommons
  • TAGora project
  • tagschema