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Art of Tagging: a manual of style

This is a wiki, inspired by a conversation in the Delicious forums. Please edit these pages, create new ones, and invite others to contribute.

 

Mission: to collaboratively document the best practices of tagging.

 

Outline 

"tags are not a classification system or metadata. they're user interface designed around the way your memory and intuition are about. It's about choosing a keyword that you are likely to remember about that item (remember, prospective recall.) Metadata is a fine thing, and I wanted to have the ability to add multiple sets of domains' field values. But it is different from tagging."1

- Joshua Schachter, Founder of Delicious

Why tag? An introduction

 

Conventions

  • Singular vs Plural?
  • Lowercase vs Titlecase

 

Special Cases

  • Geotagging
  • Faceting
  • Heirarchies

 

Specific Services or Applications

Social Bookmarking 

  • Delicious

  • Ma.gnol.ia

 

Photo Sharing

  • Flickr

  • Picasa/PicasaWeb

  • Smugmug

 

Blogging

  • Wordpress

  • Moveable Type

  • Blogger

 

Wikis

  • PB Wiki

 

People

  • Facebook
  • Highrise

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