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October 04, 2005
tags and more tags
I use delicious a lot and like tagging but I've been wondering about some enhancements to tags form:
1) Do you ever get frustrated with the way multiple word tags are mashed up together?
It seems weird to me that new york becomes newyork, web 2.0 becomes web2.0, what if tags were input as comma delimited strings instead of spaces. Then we could put in New York, San Francisco, Web 2.0 . It would make creating bigram statistics on tags easier.
2) What about namespaces? It might be nice to have something like xml namespaces in a tag:
like de:post versus journal:post . This would give you a way to disamiguate tags in different contexts and wouldn't be too hard to implement.
3) Since tags are attributes or categories of an item what if they actually were attribute values?
Instead of tagging something as 'green' or 'red' you could do color='red'.
Posted by Chris at October 4, 2005 04:19 PM