I'd like to raise a question about the development of the Semantic Bank via Piggy Bank. Its a fairly theoretical question, and I'm not sure I'm hitting the right nail, much less that I'm hitting the head. If I'm getting it right, I'd like to offer some assistance. Here's the issue. All of the new tagging sites save tags on the server. Piggy Bank/Semantic Bank are superior in the data they allow one to save. One advantage of saving tags on a server is that one can share and compare tags and URLs with others. Each of these groups provides some (limited) facilities to manage the groups one shares tags with.
But this approach misses out on the opportunities that would come with a centralized store of tagging information. I'd like to consolidate the tagging information I have accumulated in different repositories, both the actual URLs that are tagged, and the semantics of the tags I have accumulated. Would it be possible to consolidate tagging information from multiple sources? If so, then the next step I'd propose is to use a personal dictionary-thesaurus to manage a users' personal semantics. Any reactions? Bob Parks _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
