"
Desire lines are the
foot-worn
paths that sometimes
appear in a
landscape over time. The emergent semantics is like the
desire lines. It emerges from the actual use of the tags and web resources and
directly reflects the user's vocabulary and can be used back immediately to serve the users that created them."
Xan Wu, et al.,
Exploring Social Annotations for the Semantic Web, published in WWW '06, proceedings of the 15th conference on the World Wide Web, Edinburgh, 2006.
