Using collaborative tagging as an alternative approach for software documentation in open-source development

Collaborative tagging involves the process by which users can add tags to a certain object. It is usual for pictures, music, video or other multimedia or online content to be tagged; however, tagging software modules remains unpopular if not non-existent. In open-source communities, software documen...

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Main Authors: Abundo, Louie James G., Balitbit, Julian Paolo D., Bucol, Jed Jarvis P., Villamar, Mark Emmanuel V.
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Animo Repository 2009
Online Access:https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/11895
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Institution: De La Salle University
Language: English
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Summary:Collaborative tagging involves the process by which users can add tags to a certain object. It is usual for pictures, music, video or other multimedia or online content to be tagged; however, tagging software modules remains unpopular if not non-existent. In open-source communities, software documentation is largely-neglected. This paper proposes a framework of using collaborative tagging systems as an alternative approach for software documentation in open-source communities.