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Ben has been very curious about folksonomies lately and I find the
charts that he generated from real-life del.icio.us data to be very
thought provoking.
Adding tagging capabilities to Piggy-Bank is already in the pipeline and
knowing that tagging (at least on first order) follows a power law
distribution might give important clues on how to design the UI to
reduce to a minimum the metadata-tax.
One note, though: power-laws all look the same. What would be even more
interesting (to me, at least) is to transform this data into a different
spectral realm (not sure Laplace would do it.... maybe Daubechies... boy
so many things to do, so little time :-)
Anyway, Ben, is the data available? (maybe in RDF,hint hint ;-)
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Stefano Mazzocchi
Research Scientist Digital Libraries Research Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology location: E25-131C
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Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 email: stefanom at mit . edu
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