The collaborative organization of knowledge

@article{Spinellis2008TheCO,  title={The collaborative organization of knowledge},  author={Diomidis D. Spinellis and Panagiotis Louridas},  journal={Commun. ACM},  year={2008},  volume={51},  pages={68-73},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:77400}}
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