GroupMe! Launched
This week saw the launch of the GroupMe! Semantic Web application. GroupMe! is based on the concepts of social bookmarking systems such as Flickr and del.icio.us, and other interactive sites like Wikis. The novelty of the site lies in the fact that it provides steps towards creating ontologies from folksonomies based on groups, the resources in each group, and the tags assigned to each resource.
The application allows the user to create his/her own group corresponding to the user’s interests, and enables the addition of content using a resource search. The options for adding resources include results generated from Google, Flickr, GroupMe! groups, and GroupMe! resources. The user also has the possibility to manually add a resource by URL and an RSS feed by URL.
GroupMe! lets the user create a group and add content based on his/her own mental image of how information should be organized. However, the content is later labeled with RDF. The user can add tags to the multimedia resources in his group, which comprise the content of the group. As more users add more groups and tagged content, relations between tags are extracted. Over time, search and ranking strategies are improved. Thus, the starting point is the user’s idiosyncratic pattern of assigning an arbitrary tag to a resource in a group. The output is RDF produced from the association between the tags for resources and groups. The site also allows the user to view other users groups and resources. A set of APIs is available to allow further reuse of the tools.
Tags: folksonomies, GroupMe!, multimedia, ontologies, rdf, tags