Ask Slashdot: Tags and Tagging, What Is the Best Way Forward? 142
siliconbits writes "The debate about tagging has been going for nearly a decade. Slashdot has covered it a number of times.
But it seems that nobody has yet to come up with a foolproof solution to tagging. Even luminaries like Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo and Slashdot all have different tagging schemes. Commontag, a venture launched in 2009 to tackle tagging, has proved to be all but a failure despite the backing of heavyweights like Freebase, Yahoo and Zemanta. Even Google gave up and purchased Freebase in July 2010. Somehow I remain convinced that a unified, semantically-based solution, using a mix of folksonomy and taxonomy, is the Graal of tagging. I'd like to hear from fellow Slashdotters as to how they tackle the issue of creating and maintaining a tagging solution, regardless of the platform and the technologies being used in the backend." A good time to note: there may be no pretty way to get at them, but finding stories with a particular tag on Slashdot is simple, at least one at a time: Just fill in a tag you'd like to explore after "slashdot.org/tag/", as in "slashdot.org/tag/bizarro."
Tagging? (Score:2, Informative)
Are we talking about labeling, tagging in the version control sense, egocentric graffiti? Can't figure it out from the summary.
Freebase and Zemanta were luminaries? (Score:5, Informative)
I do not think "luminaries" means what you think it means.
Also, WTF is Graal?
Re:fuck tags (Score:4, Informative)
Re:fuck tags (Score:3, Informative)
What are these supposed technical fields that don't use tagging or metadata?
So, you've never used images? Never used a camera phone? Never used gmail? Never used bookmarks in firefox? You're in a business and never used Outlook? Never listened to a MP3 file? Never used windows and clicked on the file explorer to add columns? Never written a web page, or XML? Never used a TIFF file? Where exactly is this mythological technical person and what do they do?