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April 21, 2006

Raytheon's moderated tagging

At the Taxocop wiki you can read a fascinating discussion of how tagging systems can and are being used internally by corporations. Christine Connors explains, for example, that at Raytheon, librarians moderate user suggestions for sites and keywords. "We only rarely disapprove of a user-submitted term; overly general, vague or completely off-base terms are those that get deleted. We occasionally call to clarify a submission," Christine says. [Tags: taxonomy tagging everything_is_miscellaneous raytheon christine_connors]

Posted by D. Weinberger at April 21, 2006 01:03 PM

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As RSS feeds become richer and contain more than just text, tagging will become an interesting way to identify transactions and people. It's going to change a lot of workflows once adoption starts, which is going to take at least a few years.

Posted by: Jason Kolb | April 24, 2006 09:32 AM

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