SCOT stands for Social Semantic Cloud of Tags. The development of this work has been supported by the Science Foundation Ireland and is based on RDF technology and open web standards.
‘The SCOT ontology provides a model for expressing the main concepts and properties required to describe information for tagging activities (e.g., users, tags, resources, etc.) on the Semantic Web’.
Many software applications provide tagging as the means for organising and managing content for individual and group purposes. Tagging is really the informal way of categorising and indexing resources that is not dependent on a standard or knowledge on how to apply that standard.
Although tagging has long been viewed as an individual act of managing ones resources, it is now gaining support as a tool that enables users to interact with each other using their tags.
Web 2.0 and interactive services are driving the push for easier and less formal ways of organising community learning. This specification hopefully will provide the means to share and reuse tagging data amongst users and communities.
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