Tag's, folksonomies, and Google Suggest
IFTF's Future Now makes a point about one problem with "folksonomies", bottom-up taxonomies that people create on there own :
None of the current implementations have synonym control (e.g. "selfportrait" and "me" are distinct Flickr tags, as are "mac" and "macintosh" on Del.icio.us).
I wonder if a Google Suggest like system might help narrow the list of "lazy" tagging for Furl, Flickr and Del.icio.us? By "lazy" I mean the habit to use the shortest possible name for something.
2 Comments:
- How about linking tags with the same meaning?
- Also possible: Using wikipedia as reference for tags
By DavidMann, at 10:10 AM
TopicMaps might be a way to structure this
By Ian, at 12:48 PM
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