[TagCommons-WG] Use Cases for Sharing Tag Data

[Thomas Vander Wal]

Have you looked at iTags [http://itags.net]? iTags sets out to solve the
same issues, as well as predicate through using the XRI in a URL.


On 2/16/07 8:07 PM, "Richard Newman" <holygoat at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Cross Application Tag Aggregation is useful when you want to build
>> on other people's tags.  Richard Newman has built a system that
>> does this sort of thing - Richard?
> Quite so.
> 
> I actually wasn't considering specific systems or activities when I
> tried to formalize my tag ontology[1]. Instead, I tried to precisely
> model the act of a user's tagging of a resource. It turns out that
> this kernel is present in every tagging application I've seen, which
> is convenient! More recently I've applied this ontology to my own
> software, where it uses tags, and also to integrate my own taggings
> from del.icio.us, de.lirio.us/Simpy, etc.  The details change between
> services, but there are a great deal of similarities.
> 
> This integration between services turns out to be one of your use
> cases: getting data from different tagging services and smushing it
> together. Once you get them into a shared data model, with shared
> identifiers ‹ RDF provides these ‹ you can start finding books
> (Librarything), pictures (Flickr), websites (del.icio.us), and people
> (my own stuff) which are associated with the tags you want. Pulling
> in other users' tags introduces some semantic issues, but again lets
> you do more.
> 
>> Harry Halpin is doing excellent work bridging ontologies to more
>> syntactic formats with the intent to enable use cases such as cross
>> application tagging.  We should hear more about this in a separate
>> thread.  For here, I would point out that to do this right, you
>> need to join both the tags and the identity information (about the
>> tagger) across applications, communities, or whatever you call it.
> Quite so. Stefano Mazzocchi and I ran into this, and I tend to
> 'solve' it by using unique URIs for each user's tags. Tough problem;
> I'd love to hear more about it.
> 
> 
> Thanks for starting this WG, Tom; it should be interesting.
> 
> -R
> 
> [1] <http://www.holygoat.co.uk/projects/tags/>
> 
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Thomas

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