folksonomy

The Art of Taxonomy: Creating Concept-Rich Services
$39.99
Understanding and organizing data is increasingly important as organizational repositories and websites grow in size and add more content -- including content uploaded by visitors. The Art of Taxonomy introduces low-cost, low-risk tools and techniques for using taxonomies to help. With them, you can implement high-performing applications, manage websites and content management systems (CMS), improve search results, direct visitors to content of interest, and even predict trends in your field. The Art of Taxonomy shows you how to improve search and navigation to your data, supply links to related content, and target feeds to different audiences. Thoroughly practical and bolstered by in-depth case studies, this book will teach managers, site administrators, programmers, and content contributors how to deal more effectively with the systems that emerge on their sites. Learn the definitions of, and purposes for, taxonomies Understand types of design, such as controlled vocabularies, hierarchies and polyhierarchies, and facets Build better searches using taxonomies and metadata to improve relevance and make it easier to zero in on the desired information Use taxonomy analysis to predict trends in your field Work with user tagging and folksonomies and use them to improve data access in other places Get a solid background in the tools of the trade, such as semantic tagging with XML and RDFa, how existing taxonomies can be transformed into modern ontologies with OWL and Protege, and using methods for simplifying relational databases or XQuery to store and retrieve structured data Learn simple methods for managing change in the taxonomy

Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web
$39.99
It's very clear and simply written, and at the same time complete and exhaustive. Good purchase.

Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0
$34.99
I would highly recommend purchasing this book if you are at all involved in constructing the XHTML for website pages. Microformats will become increasingly more important in the coming years. The book is well organized (one of the best organized technical books I have read in a very long time).

I would love to see an updated editon of this book come out in the near future to update us on any newer microformats that are available (which you can always check out a microformats.org) and also on companies that have since begun to use microformats (even more than say Yahoo! and Technorati).

Thanks for such a wonderfully written book.

Weaving Services and People on the World Wide Web
$99.00
Ever since its inception, the Web has changed the landscape of human experiences on how we interact with one another and data through service infrastructures via various computing devices. This interweaving environment is now becoming ever more embedded into devices and systems that integrate seamlessly on how we live, both in our working or leisure time. For this volume, King and Baeza-Yates selected some pioneering and cutting-edge research work that is pointing to the future of the Web. Based on the Workshop Track of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008) in Beijing, they selected the top contributions and asked the authors to resubmit their work with a minimum of one third of additional material from their original workshop manuscripts to be considered for this volume. After a second-round of reviews and selection, 16 contributions were finally accepted. The work within this volume represents the tip of an iceberg of the many exciting advancements on the WWW. It covers topics like semantic web services, location-based and mobile applications, personalized and context-dependent user interfaces, social networks, and folksonomies. The presentations aim at researchers in academia and industry by showcasing latest research findings. Overall they deliver an excellent picture of the current state-of-the-art, and will also serve as the basis for ongoing research discussions and point to new directions.