%0 Journal Article %A Francisco Echarte and José Javier Astrain and Alberto Córdoba and Jesús Villadangos %D 2008 %J International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 19, 2008 %T Self-adaptation of Ontologies to Folksonomies in Semantic Web %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/11884 %V 19 %X Ontologies and tagging systems are two different ways to organize the knowledge present in the current Web. In this paper we propose a simple method to model folksonomies, as tagging systems, with ontologies. We show the scalability of the method using real data sets. The modeling method is composed of a generic ontology that represents any folksonomy and an algorithm to transform the information contained in folksonomies to the generic ontology. The method allows representing folksonomies at any instant of time. %P 2341 - 2347