[uf-discuss] Multi-word tagging

[Martin McEvoy]

sorry all for my malformed email, my 2 year old was sat on my knee
partway through my message,;)

oh well ignore if you like!

Martin
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 12:55 +0000, Martin McEvoy wrote:
> 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
>