Folksonomia: Representação e recuperação da informação nas redes sociais

Abstract

In the social networking environment, which has been strengthened through the beginning of a new era on the internet, a Web 2.0, a folksonomy application is constant, a positive and negative feature on the Internet, among them an imprecision, due to an ambiguity and a problem, in order to identify the way in which the distribution of the tags provides the reflection of the users' needs and interests, and which shows itself in the collectivity and dynamics of the virtual environment, the research aims to understand how users allow identifying in its own documents how a hierarchy of terms of marking, and agreements for one's use of a non-consensual group. It is necessary to reflect on the production of information in social networks, which are increasingly a support of preference, and an increase according to an adherence of people with technologies. For this purpose, a qualitative and quantitative research was required, through the analysis and categorization of the data, it was possible to verify how the user of a social network perceives himself in the informational environment, and if through folksonomy is able to represent his documents, analyzing the advantages and limitations of this tool, and at what level of representation it is possible to provide the organization and retrieval of information.