Folksonomies: Spontaneous crowd sourcing with online early detection potential?

Abstract This article focuses on the analysis of this distributed, heterogeneous, open and continuous production of “data about data” and its possible contribution to early detection objectives. It assesses whether the related processes of open classification and free annotation could provide promising results not only for information retrieval goals, which they are meant for, but also for detecting weak signals of incoming changes.

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