A Framework for Experience Sharing Through Contextual Tagging

The web is a knowledge-sharing place where many tools allow people to share their own experience about the resources they use. This shared experience informs about how resources have been perceived and involved in particular contexts. Such sharing is expected to help new users in building their own working contexts. Most of these tools involve a tagging system. Tags can help in navigating through shared knowledge, but tags also carry semantics that can help in understanding it. In this paper, we propose a literature review showing that tag semantics can only be fully understood while considering the context it comes from. Our assumption is that it is possible to better link tags to their creation context. We thus propose the EVOXEL framework, which relies on an activity-based structure and basic mechanisms that allow reaching this objective. We then discuss its capabilities, and provide first use cases we applied to test