A List of Social Tagging Datasets Made Available for Research

This list is not exhaustive - help expand it!

Social Tagging Systems	Research Group	Source	Year Obtained	Availability	Contact	References
CiteULike	Oversity Ltd.	Primary	Daily Snapshots	Via Download after Email (link)	Richard Cameron
Bibsonomy	KDE	Primary	Periodical Snapshots every half year	Available after signed license agreement	Andreas Hotho	[Hotho 2006]
MovieLens	GroupLens	Primary	2009	Via Download (link)	GroupLens Info	[Sen 2006]
GiveALink	NaN Group	Primary	Current information via API	Via API	Filippo Menczer	[Markines 2009]
ESP Game	Luis von Ahn	Primary	2006	Via Download (link)	Luis von Ahn	[VonAhn 2004]
Delicious	DAI Labor	Secondary	2007/2008	Via Email Request	Alan Said	[Wetzker 2006]
Delicious, Stumble Upon & Wikipedia	NLP and Information Retrieval Group	Secondary	2008/2009	Via Download (link)	Arkaitz Zubiaga	[Zubiaga 2009a] [Zubiaga 2009b] [Zubiaga 2009c]
Delicious, Flickr, Last.fm, zexe.net	TAGora	Secondary	2006, 2007, 2008	Via Download (link)	Vittorio Loreto
Delicious, Flickr, Diigo, Bibsonomy and others	Agents and Social Computation	Secondary	2009	Via Email Request	Markus Strohmaier	[Grahsl 2010]

In case you are aware of other available datasets, please let me know by leaving a comment on a corresponding blog post.

Page updated and maintained by Markus Strohmaier.

References

[Grahsl 2010] H.P. Grahsl, C. Körner, M. Strohmaier. A Collection of Tagging Datasets Containing Complete Personomies From Heterogeneous Sources. Technical Report, Knowledge Management Institute, Graz University of Technology. To be published in 2010

[Hotho 2006] A. Hotho, R. Jäschke, C. Schmitz, and G. Stumme. BibSonomy: A Social Bookmark and Publication Sharing System. In Aldo de Moor, Simon Polovina, and Harry Delugach, editors, Proceedings of the Conceptual Structures Tool Interoperability Workshop at the 14th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Aalborg, Denmark

[Markines 2009] B. Markines and F. Menczer. A Scalable, Collaborative Similarity Measure for Social Annotation Systems. Proc. 20th ACM Conf. on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT).

[Sen 2006] S. Sen, S. K. Lam, A. M. Rashid, D. Cosley, D. Frankowski, J. Osterhouse, F. M. Harper, and J. Riedl. tagging, communities, vocabulary, evolution. In CSCW '06: Proceedings of the 2006 20th Anniversary Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, pages 181-190, New York, NY, USA, 2006. ACM.

[VonAhn 2004] L. von Ahn and L. Dabbish. Labeling Images with a Computer Game. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2004. pp 319-326.

[Wetzker 2008] R. Wetzker, C. Zimmermann, and C. Bauckhage. Analyzing Social Bookmarking Systems: A Delicious cookbook. In Mining Social Data (MSoDa) Workshop Proceedings, pp. 26-30. ECAI 2008, (July 2008).

[Zubiaga 2009a] A. Zubiaga, R. Martínez, and V. Fresno. Getting the Most Out of Social Annotations for Web Page Classification. Proceedings of DocEng 2009, the 9th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, pp. 74-83, Munich, Germany. 2009.

[Zubiaga 2009b] A. Zubiaga, A. P. García-Plaza, V. Fresno, and R. Martínez. Content-based Clustering for Tag Cloud Visualization. Proceedings of ASONAM 2009, International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining. 2009.

[Zubiaga 2009c] A. Zubiaga. Enhancing Navigation on Wikipedia with Social Tags. Wikimania 2009. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2009.

Last edited on December 7, 2009 (Christian Körner, Markus Strohmaier)