Abstract
This poster presents preliminary findings of user tag analysis in the domain of consumer health information. To obtain user terms, 36,205 tags from 38 consumer health information sites were collected from delicious.com. Content analysis was applied to identify the dimensions and types of the collected tags. The preliminary findings showed that user generated tags covers a variety of aspects of health information, ranging from general terms, subject terms, knowledge type, and to audience. General terms and subject terms were observed dominantly by showing 31.7% and 22.8% respectively.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | JCDL 2015 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE-CE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries |
| Pages | 249-250 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450335942 |
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| State | Published - Jun 21 2015 |
| Event | 15th ACM/IEEE-CE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2015 - Knoxville, United States Duration: Jun 21 2015 → Jun 25 2015 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries |
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| Volume | 2015-June |
| ISSN (Print) | 1552-5996 |
Conference
| Conference | 15th ACM/IEEE-CE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2015 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Knoxville |
| Period | 6/21/15 → 6/25/15 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015 Authors.
Keywords
- consumer health information
- qualitative analysis
- social tagging
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering