[TagCommons-WG] mechanisms for sharing tag data

[Marja Koivunen]

Nitin Borwankar wrote:
> Nitin Borwankar wrote:
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>> Tom,
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>> 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.
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> 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. 
>   
Nothing prevents you from using ids that are ambiguous across the user's 
other computers or other users' computers. Also some URIs like file:// 
URIs can be used for this.

However, if you want to collaborate and share at some point you need to 
change the ids to be globally unambiguous.
> 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.
>   
Why is this a problem? It can all be done in Annotea locally and using 
file:// URIs or even some other ambiguous identifies.

But my interest is in collaboration and sharing these with 1) all the 
users other environments and 2) with other users / user groups. And that 
can be also done in Annotea. It is even possible to combine both.

Marja
> Nitin
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