[TagCommons-WG] Use Cases for Sharing Tag Data

[Harry Halpin]

Also the "language" of the tag is also going to pop up in
cross-appliation tag aggregation, and I think mapping to a common
ontology could help us with this this problem. For example, what if I
know both German and English (which I do), what if I want all resources
about tags about Germany? Germans would tag that with "Deutschland".

Furthermore, this would be a great use-case for seeing what taggers are
doing in different language communities. Are the same tags used by
people in Korea as in the USA?

There's an interesting message on the microformat list-serv about
multi-lingual tagging between Karl Dubost and Tantek Celik that's worth
looking at [1].

And how the lack of a non-English user-interface on Flickr leading to
all sorts of problem...

[1]
http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-October/006035.html


Thomas Vander Wal wrote:
> I will start with this little project description.  It is a cross
> application tagging search tool.  It is simple tag search across 14 or so
> tagging services.  The project is a proof of concept for something larger,
> which has not moved forward.
>
> The project started with answering a simple question, "what tagging service
> should I use" that came after every presentation on tagging I gave.  The
> answer depends on what that person's interest is, what they call things, and
> what service has people tagging in a similar manner.
>
> The tagging search tool sets out to provide an answer to that simple
> question by providing the ability to see results to a simple tag term
> grouped by tagging services in reverse chron order.  The person can add and
> remove tagging services in the search then save and then grab an RSS feed of
> those services when new items are added.
>
> The project still runs, but is not currently being developed.  I went to
> shut the service down but 2/3rds of those using the tool found it helpful
> and it scratched an itch they could not otherwise scratch.
>
> I have mostly been using it for research.
>
> - I have watched tag terms over time across various services and watched
> interest in a tag/subject move from one service to another.
>
> - The same person may use the same tag term (such as "design") differently
> on different tagging services (use as in visual design context on Ma.gnolia,
> while using it for system design on del.icio.us).
>
> - Since the site currently only searches simple terms it is really apparent
> that tag combinations are extremely valuable as is having a common object
> being tagged for disambiguation of tag terms.
>
> I went into the project thinking there were three valuable legs to tagging
> (identity, object being tagged, and each tag), but found that the tagging
> venue is also important to capture when working to share tags and
> disambiguate terms.
>
>
> On 2/16/07 7:18 PM, "Tom Gruber" <onto at tomgruber.org> wrote:
>
>
>   
>> Thomas Vander Wal has an application that does Cross Application Tagging.
>> Thomas, would you mind telling us about that?
>>     
>
> All the best,
> Thomas
>
>   


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		-harry

Harry Halpin,  University of Edinburgh 
http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin 6B522426