rel-tag-spaces

This is a list of "name spaces" suitable for use in tagging, and by the rel-tag microformat. Please feel free to add to it, in alphabetical order

A9

• One word - http://a9.com/microformats
• Multi-word - http://a9.com/brown+sugar (plus sign)

eBay

• One word - http://search.ebay.com/door
• Multi-word - http://search.ebay.com/door-mat (hyphen)
• International - http://search.ebay.co.uk/door (etc.)

Flickr

• One word - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/door
• Multi-word - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/door_mat (underscore)

Technorati

• One word - http://technorati.com/tag/cheese
• Multi-word - http://technorati.com/tag/apple+pie (plus sign)

Wikipedia

• One word - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sugar
• Multi-word - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/brown_sugar (underscore)

Issues (Wikipedia)

• Case sensitivity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Barr works; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/perry_barr does not)
• Caution should be exercised when using Wikipedia as a name-space. For example, an article about Birmingham, Alabama, tagged with a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham would link to an article about Birmingham, England.

Wikitravel

For place names.

• One word - http://wikitravel.org/en/London
• Multi-word - http://wikitravel.org/en/East_Grinstead (underscore)

Issues (Wikitravel)

• A tag using, e.g. http://wikitravel.org/en/Newcastle will link to a disambiguation page.

Related pages

• rel-tag
• rel-tag-faq
  • See also rel-faq
• rel-tag advocacy - encourage others to use rel-tag.
• rel-tag-spaces - sites suitable as using as targets for rel-tag links.

The rel-tag specification is a work in progress. As additional aspects are discussed, understood, and written, they will be added. These thoughts, issues, and questions are kept in separate pages.

• rel-tag-feedback - general feedback (as opposed to specific issues).
• rel-tag-issues - specific issues with the specification.
• rel-tag-other-evidence - tagging schemas other than those used in rel-tag