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are at the heart of research into the relationship between tags with, for example, Shen and
Wu (2005) arguing that these kinds of connections can be used to model the properties of
the ‘folksonomies’
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that dierent sites are constructing, and thus have important implica-
tions for some of the issues discussed in Chapter 5. e authors created a graph of nodes,
each of which consisted of a tag taken from Delicious. e links between nodes represented
instances where tags shared a correspondence, that is, both tags were used on a particular
bookmark. So, if the tags ‘Web 2.0’ and ‘Internet’ were both applied ...