Tagging - It’s So Hip, but what’s up with it?
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007So hip in fact that we’re doing wild style! Meaning it’s part of one of my work projects and I’ve spent some hours reading, trying to get into the “tag space” and understand where the world is at on the subject.
Of course I had to check out some implementations of the concept so Flickr, de.licio.us, ma.gnolia and a bunch of other tagging sites have crossed my screen.
If you’re new to the concept and looking for a little more insight I found these articles that might help to understand, at a high level, where tagging is at and where it might need to go.
- Ontology Overview - Musing on Value of tags for organization
- Cognitive Analysis of Tagging - Insight into how the mind process behind reading and tagging a piece of content
- Automated Tag Clustering - Discussion on making sense of large sets of tagged data
- Database Schemas for tagging - the geekdown on how a database could be set up to manage tagging in an application. Honestly, parts of this were over my head, but it may be useful if you’re looking to program