Talk:Tag (metadata)

As a relative newbie to folksonomies - tags, in particular - I'm wondering if there's a protocol, per se, for displaying the tag links in one's content. In a blog entry, for instance:

• Where should the tags appear?
• Is it kosher for them to be italicised?
• Can they have delimiters other than spaces?
• etc.

The syntax rules for the tag links are necessary because computer programs need to identify them. Apart from the programmatic need, what should an author consider when displaying tags? What sort of leeway is reasonable if one prefers to display one's tags a little differently from the norm?

--aslam 23:27, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)

History

It would be interesting to see some historical context here, where did the curent idea of tags first get show up? did it have the current UI as demonstrated in del.icio.us/gnome?

Metadata, tags, and meta tags

Should tags and meta tags be covered in two different articles? And how do these two articles relate to the one on metadata? Seems to me a meta tag is a type of tag. This article - on tags - seems to be solely concerned with meta tags in the electronic environment. Tags in general also exist in the real world, e.g. tagging young offenders, graffiti, brand labels etc...

I think we need to merge these articles or make the connections more explicit and clear. Any thoughts? NickW 11:54, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Delicious seemed to popularize it, but I believe the first site to have a major tagging system was livejournal, even though they weren't called "tags". They were groups that users entered simply as freetext, and could use to find related interests.

Too many external links?

Is it just me, or are there too many external links (Online services and their tagged objects) on this page, as opposed to real content? I think it would be a good idea to start sorting through these sites to leave only the ones that are most relevant to the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Vekron10 (talk • contribs) March 2006.

You're absolutely right. In the interest of keeping this article free of fluff, I have removed the entire ==Online services and their tagged objects== section. It simply isn't needed, as there is a nice compact section of well-known example websites.

If someone feels the external links to those 4 sites should be in an ==External links== section, he/she can create an EL section and move them there. Note that if such a section is created, it should not be repopulated with external links. Wikipedia is not a linkfarm. See WP:NOT & WP:EL. --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 02:34, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Is there any need for the exlinks in the "Example websites that use Tags" section? They all have internal links which (presumably) carry exlinks to the site in question on them. Percy Snoodle 15:43, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Nope, you're right, there's no need for 'em. I've removed them. --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 16:25, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to add a link to ma.gnolia -- doesn't it deserve as much mention as del.icio.us? --Bill.Albing 13:07, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

That section is intended only to provide a few examples of websites that use tags. It may already have 1 too many as is (Eventful). I don't think we should start randomly adding sites that use tags, especially if they don't have WP articles of their own (ma.gnolia is just a redirect). --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 13:14, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Proposed move to "Tag (metadata)"

"Tags" is too generic and gives absolutely no information to disambiguate. I propose a move to Tag (metadata). æ² ✆ 2006-07-27t19:22z

I agree --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 23:25, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Done. --Amit 19:04, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Forum on Tagging

If anybody is interested, there is a forum on tagging at http://blogoforum.com/tag/tagging . If somebody think it can be helpful for others - please mention it in the article. I will not add the link since I'm actually creator of Blogoforum.

Denis Krukovsky, author, Blogoforum