TY - JFULL AU - Francisco Echarte and José Javier Astrain and Alberto Córdoba and Jesús Villadangos PY - 2008/8/ TI - Self-adaptation of Ontologies to Folksonomies in Semantic Web T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 2340 EP - 2347 VL - 2 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/11884 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 19, 2008 N2 - 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. ER -