tagspeak-examples
tagspeak examples
tagspeak is the way in which ordinary people construct tags.
The Problem
As tags have grown in popularity and usage they are increasingly called upon to undertake additional tasks besides categorization such as-
- As directives to route content, associate tags to a group tag or associate with a broader consensus tag
- Provide additional attributes such as username, genre etc. for a tag
Currently, these additional tag attributes are being marked up in an ad-hoc fashion as decided by individuals, consensus groups and/or tag services.
Formulating a standard for tagspeak would
- assist taggers - who could use the same formulation across multiple services
- assist tagservices - who could build support for the range of tagspeak instead of one-of and ad-hoc development.
- assist tag processors - who could build parsers for tagspeak
Participants
Real-World Examples
Everyday users construct tags in two ways
- with links: using the rel-tag formulation
- in plain text: on taggable services such as flickr, delcious etc.
Link examples
The primary example of this is the rel-tag formulation, which although works quite well, could be broadened to assist everyday bloggers as this study indicates.
Technorati and rel-tag formulations
<a href="http://technorati.com/<tag>" rel="tag">any text</a>
gada.be formulation
Uses the first word in the url as the tag. This has the benefit of making it very easy to remember, and is especially useful for mobile customers.
<a href="http://<tag>.gada.be">any text</a>
==== Proposed formulations - blogspeak.org