How Do We Know that Collaborative Classification is Expanding?

Today,  many articles have discussed how tests and surveys are being conducted in order to observe the effect of collaborative classification on the internet and on society, as well as discussing the benefits that arise from the systematic process. Referring back to O.J. Borchert's article, Harnessing user generated multimedia content in the creation of collaborative classification structures and retrieval learning games, gaming is used to measure the productivity of collaborative classification from gaming and how it impacts the user. “When supplied with more structured data, students were enthusiastic about the classification and identification tasks, showing marked improvement in usability scores iv and in open ended survey responses” (O.J. Borchert 20-22). Borchert reveals how collaborative classification has been used to organize data and classify them according to specified topics, which were then used as data in an experiment to measure the productivity of these individuals. 

  

According to the article, Collaborative Filtering with Ordinal Scale-based Implicit Ratings for Mobile Music Recommendations, Seok Kee Lee discusses how collaborative classification is a crucial in developing collaborative filtering, which is a useful solution to categorize information and unites users globally with an attractive interphase, and demonstrates how people are living virtual lives as online activity increases significantly. “It identifies customers whose tastes are similar to those of the target customer and recommends items that those customers have liked” (Seok Kee Lee 19-20). Lee's statement reveals how collaborative classification unites people by linking them to others of similar interests and guiding them to work with those who can build upon a specific category. This teamwork leads to the expansion of collaborative classification by having users work together to describe and classify a specific topic on the internet. This blog for example is a tool of collaborative classification since it possesses the ability for users to read this topic and take a position by commenting their beliefs. This controversy helps describe the topic even more by addressing all details of its specifics and how it is involved in society. Collaborative classification is the catalyst for productivity on the internet due to these factors and connects societies all over the world by sharing their similar interests. Without this systematic process, people would not be able to live a life in the virtual world and would not possess the ability to discover shared interests with others.