Crowd-based Information Organization: A Case Study of the Folk Ontologies in Wikipedia and TV Tropes

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Martin, Jennifer
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • Folk ontologies are the organically created, crowd-managed ontology-like structures used to organize information in wikis. This paper takes as case studies the folk ontologies of the wikis Wikipedia and TV Tropes, performing a three-part analysis on them. The first part describes the folk ontologies and examines how they are maintained and used. The second part creates an evaluation framework based on the ontology evaluation literature and considers the folk ontologies in that light. The third part takes a random sample of pages from the wiki and performs a quantitative analysis looking at where and how the folk ontologies appear and what effects their presence has. The goal of the paper is to advance our understanding of how people, in aggregate, organize information.
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  • Shaw, Ryan
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  • Master of Science in Library Science
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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