Social tagging in community memories

Trabajo presentado al AAAI Spring Symposium celebrado en Stanford, California (US) del 26 al 28 de marzo de 2008.Communities form in order to manage and defend a commons and community memories are distributed information systems that help them do so. This paper discusses the use of tagging within community memories. We argue that the role of tagging goes beyond being an aid in navigation. It is a means by which communities come to grips with the tensions and challenges of their environment through the bottom-up construction of a common ontology and a representation of themselves.The writing of this paper at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris was partly supported by the Streps TAGORA project of the European Commission (IST-FET).Peer reviewe