Supporting Taxonomy Management and Evolution in a Web-based Knowledge Management System

The internet surpassed the zettabyte order of magnitude of traffic in 2016. With the growth of the internet, information categorization becomes even more important than before. By matching information to existing categories, humans as well as machines are able to organize, manage, access and re-use information and knowledge resources in a more efficient and effective way. Categorization also helps to narrow the choices among content, information, and knowledge resources. Content, information, and knowledge resources can be browsed, searched, and accessed faster if they are appropriately categorized. In order to make categorization possible, a taxonomy is needed to organize content, information, and knowledge resources into a set of topical categories. In this paper, we target the need to support human computer interaction related to applying taxonomies including the challenges in taxonomy management, development, and evolution, as well as approaches to solve the related challenges. A Taxonomy Management System is introduced in this paper as a solution for supporting the human computer interaction in management, development as well as the evolution of taxonomies. The underlying architecture as well as the user interface of the Taxonomy Management System will also be explained. Finally, the implemented proof-of-concept system prototype is evaluated with real world users along real-world application use cases within the scope of a European funded Research and Innovation Action project.

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Binh Vu

Jana Mertens

Kerstin Gaisbachgrabner

Michael Fuchs

Matthias Hemmje

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 1-11

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[1 ] Research Institute for Telecommunication and Cooperation

Dortmund, Germany

[2 ] Gaisbachgrabner

Graz University of Technology

Graz, Austria

[3 ] Wilhelm Büchner

University of Applied Sciences

Pfungstadt, Germany

[4 ] FernUniversität in Hagen

Hagen, Germany

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.50

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

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Conference number: 32

Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

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Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

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[2] Ajax 2018 http://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/AJAX (March 5th, 2018)

[3] O. AlonsoM. Lease 2011 Crowdsourcing 101: Putting the WSDM of Crowds to Work for You Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining 1 2 ACM New York

[4] AngularJS (n.d.) http://angularjs.org (March 5th, 2018)

[5] Apache Solr (n.d.) http://lucene.apache.org/solr (March 5th, 2018)

[6] S. E. Asch 1956 Studies of Independence and Conformity: I. A Minorit y of One Against a Unanimous Majority Psychological Monographs: General and Applied 1 70

[7] B. Boiko 2005 Content Management Bible John Wiley & Sons

[8] D. C. Brabham 2008 Crowdsourcing as a Model for Problem Solving : An Introduction and Cases Convergence. The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies

[9] T. H. DavenportL. Prusak 1998 Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know Harvard Business Press

[10] Definition of Taxonomy 2017 http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/taxonomy (May 26th, 2017)

[11] E. Estellés-ArolasF. González-Ladrón-de-Guevara 2012 Towards an integrated crowdsourcing definition Journal of Information Science 1 14

[12] K. Finstad 2010 The Usability Metric for User Experience Interacting with Computers 22 323 327

[13] A. GeorgievA. GrigorovB. BontchevP. BoytchevK. StefanovK. Bahreini 2016 The RAGE Software Asset Model and Metadata Model JCSG 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9894 Springer, Cham

[14] Git (n.d.) http://git-scm.com (March 5th, 2018)

[15] Git Basics (n.d.) http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Git-Basics (March 5th, 2018)

[16] GitHub (n.d.) http://github.com (March 6th, 2018)

[17] H. Hedden 2010 The Accidental Taxonomist. Information Today Inc

[18] jQuery (n.d.) http://jquery.com (March 6th, 2018)

[19] jsTree (n.d.) http://www.jstree.com (March 6th, 2018)

[20] F. KitchensC. Crane 2014 Customersourcing: to Pay or be Paid Proceedings of the 27th Bled eConference Bled, Slovenia

[21] H. KonM. Hoey 2005 Leveraging collective knowledge Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management Bremen, Germany 560 567 ACM New York, NY, USA

[22] P. Kotler 1986 Prosumers: A New Type of Consumer Futurist 20 5 24

[23] P. Lambe 2007 Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness Chandos Publishing

[24] H. A. LinstoneM. Turoff 1975 The Delphi Method: Techniques and Applications Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc

[25] A. Lund 2001 Measuring Usability with the USE Questionnaire. STC Usability SIG Newsletter

[26] Memcached (n.d.) http://memcached.org (March 6th, 2018)

[27] Mendeley (n.d.) http://www.mendeley.com (March 6th, 2018)

[28] A. Miles 2006 SKOS: Requirements for standardization Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 55 64

[29] MySQL (n.d.) http://www.mysql.com/de (March 6th, 2018)

[30] H. NagyT. PellegriniC. Mader 2011 Exploring Structural Differences in Thesauri for SKOS-based applications Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Semantic Systems, Graz, Austria 187 190 ACM New York

[31] I. PapadakisI. AndreouV. Chrissikopoulos 2012 Interactive search results Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Digital Libraries‐ECDL 448 462 M. SalmanD. HeutelbeckM. Hemmje 2015 Towards social network support for an applied gaming ecosystem Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Games Based Learning 721 728 Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, Reading, UK

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[33] SlideShare (n.d.) http://de.slideshare.net (March 6th, 2018)

[34] Solr Features (n.d.) http://lucene.apache.org/solr/features.html (March 6th, 2018)

[35] StackOverflow (n.d.) http://stackoverflow.com (March 3rd, 2018)

[36] J. Surowiecki 2005 The Wisdom of Crowds. Anchor

[37] Symfony Framework (n.d.) http://symfony.com (March 3rd, 2018)

[38] The 2012 ACM Computing Classification System (n.d.) http://www.acm.org/publications/class-2012 (March 3rd, 2018)

[39] The Four V’s of Big Data 2005 http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/infographic/four-vs-big-data (October 17th, 2013)

[40] M. ThenB. WallenbornB. IannielloB. VuM. FuchsM. Hemmje 2016 Innovative Authoring Tools for Online-Courses with Assignments - Integrating Heterogeneous Tools of e-Learning Platforms into Hybrid Application Solutions International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning

[41] M. ThenB. WallenbornB. IannielloB. VuT. SwobodaM. FuchsM. Hemmje 2016 A Competence-Based Course Authoring Concept for Learning Platforms with Legacy Assignment Tools GSTF Journal on Computing (JoC)

[42] M. T. ThielschI. Stegemöller 2014 Münsteraner Fragebogen zur Evaluation - Zusatzmodul Diskussion Zusammenstellung sozialwissenschaftlicher Items und Skalen

[43] D. Tunkelang 2009 Faceted Search. Morgan & Claypool

[44] Typo3 (n.d.) http://typo3.org (March 3rd, 2018)

[45] B. Vu 2015 Realizing an Applied Gaming Ecosystem - Extending an Education Portal Suite towards an Ecosystem Portal. TU Darmstadt

[46] What is Symfony (n.d.) http://symfony.com/what-is-symfony (March 3rd, 2018)

[47] M. WhittakerK. Breininger 2008 Taxonomy Development for Knowledge Management World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council Québec, Canada

[48] Wikipedia (n.d.) http://www.wikipedia.org (March 3rd, 2018)

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