A Social Bookmarking-Based People Search Service: Building Communities of Practice with Collective Intelligence

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Author(s): Jeff J.S. Huang (National Central University, Taiwan), Stephen J.H. Yang (National Central University, Taiwan), Jeng C.C Chen (National Central University, Taiwan), Irene Y.S. Li (National Central University, Taiwan)and Indy Y.T. Hsiao (National Central University, Taiwan)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 17
Source title: Information Technology for Intellectual Property Protection: Interdisciplinary Advancements
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Hideyasu Sasaki (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-135-1.ch011

Keywords: Computer Science & IT / Information Science Reference / IT Policy & Standardization / IT Policy and Standardization

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The emergence of Web 2.0 has brought along the trend of community. It is also the trend that contributes to socialization of the Internet. The essence of Web 2.0 is creation and sharing which give rise to social networking communities such as Blog, Wikipedia and Facebook. Through Wikipedia, Blogs, Facebook and other kinds of social networking websites, interactive relationship and bridge of knowledge sharing have been built up successfully. This paper attempts to propose an effective way to locate people with shared interests. By using Internet resources bookmarked by the users, the similarity of interests between them can be analyzed. Based on this relationship, people could build communities. Also, through community activities, the innovation and exchange of collective intelligence are accomplished.

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