[uf-discuss] Multi-word tagging

[Martin McEvoy]

On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 11:36 +0000, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> In message <1198980572.8054.184.camel at localhost.localdomain>, Martin 
> McEvoy <martin at weborganics.co.uk> writes
> 
> >On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 23:45 +0000, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> >> google+search
> >
> >This is the best approach I think
> 
> Thank you for taking the time to reply, but, while opinions are 
> interesting, I was looking for something more definitive.
> 
>  >if you are building a url "+" is just a space,
> 
> Is it? What about /rock+roll ? Would you use /rock+++roll ?
Ha, ha well done andy no you are probably right!
> 
> >tags I always thought were just single descriptive words and a
> >link to the meaning or reference (just my thought)
> 
> I've never seen anything which says that tags can only be single words.
> 
No Neither Have I Just what i can gather:
http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/
     1. http://www.methttp://www.snagging.org/tag/Homes_from_Hell.htmlhttp://www.snagging.org/tag/Homes_from_Hell.htmlafilter.com/tags/
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/tagsView.php
http://www.amazon.com/gp/tagging/cloud?ie=UTF8&returnTo=history%20of%
20science
http://11870.com/tags
http://del.icio.us/popular/

these ones are different however
http://wwwhttp://www.snagging.org/
Multiple words are spaced using "_"
http://www.snagging.org/tag/Homes_from_Hell.html

and technorati 
http://www.technorati.com/tag/data+portability
Multiple words are spaced using "+"

also three of the biggest tag-spaces ie:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Data%20Portability&w=all&m=tags
http://www.technorati.com/tag/data+portability
http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=data+portability&type=all

build their search query in different ways so I guess it depends?

Maybe a standardised search for tag-spaces?

I dont know Andy what do you think?


Martin