[Dspace-general] more on tagging

[Paul Kobulnicky]

With apologies to the list, i initially replied only to Rob. Here is  
the text of my reply:

Think De.licio.us or flickr ... open vocabulary terms ... usually  
single words.  Enabling users to see the tags is certainly an option.

Have you read "Ontology is Overrated"  http://www.shirky.com/writings/ 
ontology_overrated.html ?  I'm convinced that categorization and  
classification has some value but that there is also value in user  
defined classification.

  My general thought is a two stage project. The first is to enable  
tags to be added to an item record's metadata by users and maybe keep  
a count of each tag entered in a given record. The second and larger  
set of  projects would be to make use of the tags beyond just having  
them act as keywords in the metadata that are searchable. So, options  
might include display of tags or use of tags and their frequency in  
some sore of larger relevancy-based search retrieval rewrite.

I thought this was a worthwhile step, by the way, while I was on the  
web, maybe The Guardian but some sort of commercial site, and there  
was a new web design that allowed users to tag it. It made me think  
that tagging was getting respectable.

So, we are just at the thinking stage right now Rob. The project is  
open to be defined.

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