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16 Jan 13
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Some of the differences between a tag cloud and a tag set where explained in Vanderwal.net: Explaining and Showing Broad and Narrow Folksonomies. Let’s see them again, and see some consequences of those differences, which should clarify when is better to use one tool and when is better to use the other.
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Tag clouds (or tagclouds) are a multiset of tags. That is, a set of tag where each tag can appear with multiplicity higher than one.
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So, for example, up to today 842 people have bookmarked delicious popular page. Each with its own tag set. The resulting tag cloud having 26 different tags with a multiplicity of at least 3 (which are the ones automatically offered by delicious url page).
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A tag set is fundamentally different than a tag cloud. It is simpler. If you just list the tags that were being used to tag a certan URL, without their multiplicity [...] you are actually collapsing the tag space, and identifying objects that might seriously be different
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If you just list the tags that were being used to tag a certan URL, without their multiplicity, or not permitting for the same tag to be used more than one time (like in flickr, 43things, consuMating, tagsurf), or not letting the user gain something out of adding an already existing tag to a tagcloud (like in the tagged version of the BBC), you are actually collapsing the tag space, and identifying objects that might seriously be different.
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17 Aug 06
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