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March 16, 2005
As we sort through tags, it'd often be useful to know who created a particular tag. And when. And in which application. And probably other stuff also. While some apps remember who created which tag (e.g., Flickr), as we begin to aggregate tags, we could use a standard way to express this tagging metadata...a Dublin Core not for objects but for tags attached to objects. If this were to happen, it's very likely to come from the apps that benefit from having standardized tag metadata. The most obvious suspects are the search engines. (Hmm. I may be re-having Mary Hodder's idea.) [Technorati tags: tags taxonomy] Posted
by D. Weinberger at March 16, 2005 11:34 AM
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Posted by: Karen Coyle | March 16, 2005 11:49 AM
Well, one obvious idea would be to do like Atom does. It has a category element that has a compulsory "term" attribute, i.e. tag, plus an optional "label" attribute designed to be human-readable, plus an optional "scheme" attribute containing a URI that identifies the tagging scheme.
So you could have
[category term="baby" label="Baby photos" scheme="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags" />
(Imgine that the [ is a less-than sign, which David's comment thingie won't let me enter)
Handy things, URIs.
Posted by: Tim Bray | March 16, 2005 12:50 PM
And, I should have said, you don't need all that stuff, you can just have
[category term="baby"/>
if you're a real true folksonomy believer.
Posted by: Tim Bray | March 16, 2005 12:52 PM
Gosh.. i hope it was good.. rehaving my idea... thanks David! I'm all for making a cool easy way to make tags for users. Like Tim's suggestions too.
Posted by: mary hodder | March 16, 2005 02:30 PM
PS.. i've heard from three different people that your Tag BOF at etech was by far (they were very enthusiastic!) the best thing they attended yesterday. I'm so so bummed that I missed it. But hopefully someone blogged it.
Posted by: mary hodder | March 16, 2005 02:32 PM
The technology is there, waiting to be used.
Let users tag whatever they need but change the systems that works with tags. Think about Semantic Web. Systems will need to get tags associated with a resource (picture, post, etc) and extract them. Then they will create a resource with each tags group and semantically link them. After, systems (search engine for example) will not just show results of "puck" tag if you enter "puck" in your search but also posts that contain "hockey", "Gretzky", etc. Take note that I'm not talking of showing related categories of tags.
I posted about the idea 2 days ago... there is the result: http://radio.weblogs.com/0140770/2005/03/15.html#a107
Posted by: Fred | March 17, 2005 09:49 AM