On Apr 28, 2007, at 8:54 AM, Robert Parks wrote: > 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. Right, their are both engineering, social, and business reasons why they are all storing it on the server side > 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. That tension between the social and personal data pools (and their semantics) is one of the cool things that PiggyBank toys with. > Would it be possible to consolidate tagging information from multiple > sources? Absolutely, all it takes is scrapers for the individual sites from whence you wish to draw your data. > If so, then the next step I'd propose is to use a personal > dictionary-thesaurus to manage a users' personal semantics. Interesting. Tags are pairs: <thing>/<tag>. RDF is triples <item>/ <verb>/<object>. I attended a light talk by Marti Hearst recently where she outlined a technique to map the pairs into the triples using wordnet's thesaurus. So if you had <ibm>/<blue> you might map it into <ibm>/<color>/<blue>. Which of course would help us, since we need triples for the facet's browsing. She does too. That paper "Automating Creation of Hierarchical Faceted Metadata Structures" and others, is here: <http://flamenco.berkeley.edu/pubs.html>. I don't believe the system outlined there is live on the web though. > Any reactions? In passing I'll note that delicious has tag bundles, which are analogous providing the user with taxonomic. > Bob Parks - ben "Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box" _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
