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Publication details [#48050]
Steels, Luc. 2008. Collaborative tagging as distributed cognition. In Dror, Itiel E. and Steven Harnad, eds. Cognition Distributed. How cognitive technology extends our minds. (Benjamins Current Topics 16). John Benjamins. pp. 93–97.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Annotation
The paper discusses recent developments in web technologies based on collaborative tagging. This approach is seen as a tremendously powerful way to coordinate the ontologies and views of a large number of individuals, thus constituting the most successful tool for distributed cognition so far.