Comment Opt-in specific tagging! (Score 2) 200
I think there definitely should be a standard of classifying information: we have huge masses of people classifying information they encounter on the web, it's the human equivalent of SETI. And therefore it would be a shame if we didn't allow people to take it one step further and give everyone the ability to do it "right" (for their particular version of right).
I am not opposing the free-style tagging, as many people wouldn't bother with any formal definitions, but having a standard so you can optionally use ontologies (predefined, or create an ontology yourself!) as a reference for what exactly you mean would be great. The tag could still be displayed as it's string representation, but would store exactly what meaning the original tagger intended. And can therefore be searched for more easily.
It'd be relatively easy to store a bit of RDF for every tag which specifies whether it's a wild tag or a "precise" reference to a phrase in an ontology. As one poster said especially the content creators might want to use this feature, and the consumers can still do however they want.
Sounds like a win-win situation to me :)
-Tiemen
I am not opposing the free-style tagging, as many people wouldn't bother with any formal definitions, but having a standard so you can optionally use ontologies (predefined, or create an ontology yourself!) as a reference for what exactly you mean would be great. The tag could still be displayed as it's string representation, but would store exactly what meaning the original tagger intended. And can therefore be searched for more easily.
It'd be relatively easy to store a bit of RDF for every tag which specifies whether it's a wild tag or a "precise" reference to a phrase in an ontology. As one poster said especially the content creators might want to use this feature, and the consumers can still do however they want.
Sounds like a win-win situation to me
-Tiemen
