[TagCommons-WG] mechanisms for sharing tag data

[Nitin Borwankar]

Marja Koivunen wrote:

>I vote for keepings things simple for users. That's why we have tags 
>anyway. At least that's why I created tags in Annotea. And that's 
>probably why so many people in our field did not understand it at first. 
>But we are doing tools for users who are not so exact, who are not in 
>our field, and who do not necessarily know what ontology means and even 
>if they do they need to learn it.
>
>Annotea has a basic schema already. Why cannot we use that? It can be 
>easily extended when needed. And what best , other available metadata 
>can be combined with that.
>
>  
>

Tom,

Could we have a blog post inviting candidate schemas/datamodels and people
can provide links in the comments if they want to submit something to be 
considered.
Please keep in mind that we will need to consider schemas that are not 
focused on one particular type such as bookmarks.
The semantics of types have a nasty way of slipping into the design 
under the radar.  Or at least if we consider such type focused schemas 
we need to do the work to vet them for hidden limitations.

Nitin

-- 
Nitin Borwankar

http://greener.com
Find, Learn, Act .... Greener, the search engine for the planet

http://tagschema.com
Implementation of tag database applications

nitin at borwankar.com
510-872-7066