Daniel Sandbecker wrote:
It would make some sense for del.icio.us to have a recommended best
practice on this. See
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/guy/01guy.html (D-Lib Magazine).
That's not a bad idea - the uniformity would definitely make the
aggregated use of tags easier - but it
The whole thing is building on sand... we talk about being exact in
correlating tags which themselves are inexactly applied to their
subjects. Even the entities that use exactly the same tag can be quite
divergent (and therein lies the richness).
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There are several approaches to that. Some just omit the spaces (like
aerospaceengineering), some like to tag with CamelCase
(AerospaceEngineering) and some like to separate words with underscore
(aerospace_engineering). I prefer the latter as I find it more
readable, but I don't know which is the
On 4/1/06, Matthew Weymar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is kind of an interesting subject actually.
There are all kinds of potential conventions for multi-word tagging. As a
result, if you're going to go looking for things other people have tagged
aerospace engineering, in one form or
An overriding aspect that is being lost in this conversation is the
quest for perfection when it comes to search, retrieval, and browsy.
Algorithmic clustering will never be as exact as strict controlled
vocabulary classifications. It is fuzzier and messier. The latter
systems have problems of
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