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05 Jun 09

J.D. Meier's Blog : Tags vs. Categories

  • Internal tags are for finer-grained slicing and dicing and hopping across your categories.
09 Jul 08

Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags?

  • Methods for improving tags


    • To succeed, attempting to improve tag literacy (or tag etiquette) in the folksonomy world involves two processes. Firstly, the community needs to be ready to set rules and agree upon a set of standards for tags. Secondly, users need to be made aware of and agree to follow these rules.




      At the moment, although there are no standard guidelines on good tag selection practices, those in the folksonomy community have offered many ideas. Ways in which tags may be improved are presented frequently on blogs and folksonomy discussion sites. In his article on tag literacy, Ulises Ali Mejias suggests a number of tag selection "best practices" [14]. These include:




      • using plurals rather than singulars
      • using lower case,
      • grouping words using an underscore,
      • following tag conventions started by others and
      • adding synonyms.



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