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==Issues== | ==Issues== | ||
#Controlled vocabulary vs free-for-all | #Controlled vocabulary vs free-for-all | ||
::'''[[User:Reidw|reid]] 19:39, 6 August 2007 (EDT):''' I think there are semantic and syntactic considerations. Do we foresee doing any deductive data mining that would require a formal ontology? Semantically, it makes more sense to me to allow a free for all--let the users do the work of establishing a relevant vocabulary. That alone may be enough. If not, we could create a formal vocabulary or formal ontology later, based on the free-for-all. I do think we should have syntactic recommendations: fooBar vs foo_bar, noun vs verb, etc. | |||
#How do we encourage people to tag pages? | #How do we encourage people to tag pages? | ||
#Shared tags or personal tagging | #Shared tags or personal tagging | ||
::'''[[User:Reidw|reid]] 19:39, 6 August 2007 (EDT):''' Can we just do what del.icio.us does?: anything I tag is shared. I can see everything with a tag at del.icio.us/mytag. I can see what I've tagged with a particular tag at del.icio.us/reidw/mytag. I can prefix tags like "private:mytag" to keep them from being shared. | |||
==Interested community members== | ==Interested community members== | ||
*[[User:Jason R. Kelly|Jason R. Kelly]] | *[[User:Jason R. Kelly|Jason R. Kelly]] | ||
*[[User:Skoch3|Steve Koch]] | *[[User:Skoch3|Steve Koch]] | ||
Revision as of 16:39, 6 August 2007
Brief description
Tags and categories could be very helpful to allow users to better navigate OWW. We may want to use a delicious-style system where users can make their own "personal" tag lists, or something where there are over-all categories (e.g. wikipedia categories).
Detailed description
- See OpenWetWare:Information management/Tags for a proposed list of "standard" tags.
- See Avenue A | Razorfish for screenshots of integration of tag clouds and wiki's.
- Issues:
- Standardization - do we need to have a fixed ontology in order to be able to mine it down the line?
- Motivation - maximum flexibility in tag names could make it easier to use
- Also, "personalized" tags might be nice. (e.g. I would probably use tags heavily if they were for my personal use. e.g. I would go to jason kelly/protocols and see all the pages I tagged protocol, etc.) So I could use it as a personal navigation system for the site, and then that could be mined. This is the del.icio.us model.
Issues
- Controlled vocabulary vs free-for-all
- reid 19:39, 6 August 2007 (EDT): I think there are semantic and syntactic considerations. Do we foresee doing any deductive data mining that would require a formal ontology? Semantically, it makes more sense to me to allow a free for all--let the users do the work of establishing a relevant vocabulary. That alone may be enough. If not, we could create a formal vocabulary or formal ontology later, based on the free-for-all. I do think we should have syntactic recommendations: fooBar vs foo_bar, noun vs verb, etc.
- How do we encourage people to tag pages?
- Shared tags or personal tagging
- reid 19:39, 6 August 2007 (EDT): Can we just do what del.icio.us does?: anything I tag is shared. I can see everything with a tag at del.icio.us/mytag. I can see what I've tagged with a particular tag at del.icio.us/reidw/mytag. I can prefix tags like "private:mytag" to keep them from being shared.
