Journal article
Collective taxonomizing: A collaborative approach to organizing document repositories
Decision Support Systems, Vol.50(1), pp.292-303
2010
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2010.08.031
Abstract
Keeping large, growing document repositories organized is a critical challenge. For example, the security failure prior to the 9/11 tragedy was partly due to the ineffectiveness of organizing documents shared among various intelligence organizations. Drawing on the success of Web 2.0 and theories from knowledge management, we argue that a shared document repository with no central organizer may benefit from collective taxonomizing: allowing community members to categorize documents with local document hierarchies and systematically coalesce those local hierarchies into a global taxonomy. Using a design science approach, we develop and evaluate a hierarchy coalescing algorithm. Empirical and analytical evaluation shows promise.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Collective taxonomizing: A collaborative approach to organizing document repositories
- Creators
- Harris Wu - Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23508, USAMichael D Gordon - University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USAWeiguo Fan - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Decision Support Systems, Vol.50(1), pp.292-303
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.dss.2010.08.031
- ISSN
- 0167-9236
- eISSN
- 1873-5797
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2010
- Academic Unit
- Business Analytics
- Record Identifier
- 9984083843002771
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