[TagCommons-WG] mechanisms for sharing tag data

[Nitin Borwankar]

Nitin Borwankar wrote:

>
>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.
>  
>

Ok, so to clarify my statement about types, I am looking at tag 
applications that may not be web applications.
In my mind tags are associated directly with a data item whose address 
may just be an integer id in a relational database. 
An example of an app that is useful but not a web app would be a rich 
client email app that has GMail like personal tags.  No notion of URL is 
applicable and yet we need to be able to discuss and use whatever tag 
formalisms we devise here. 

If we are assuming that we are operating only in a web accessible 
environment then that should be made explicit with the recognition that 
we consciously exclude rich client applications as well hand held 
applications with primitive non-web UI's such as attaching tags to 
photos taken with simple mobile phones ( not web enabled smart phones ) etc.

Nitin

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