Folksonomy in flickr: a study

Image retrievalis one of important areas of research. Of late,'user tagging' or 'folkosonomy' has received considerable attention from the researchers. This paper makes an attempt to describe the term folksonomyand studies the structure and form of free text tags assigned by the users for image retrievalusing Flickr. The study shows that Folksonomiesshare the problems inherent to all uncontrolled vocabularies.