Marcelo Wolfgang wrote: > That's where the tagging system of del.icio.us comes in handy. > You could tag the link as judaism and christianity and the link will > be show under the two hierarchy, so you will always found it's place.
Precisely! > Think of the tags as folders, you can delimit them ( user choice here > del.icio.us if you ever going to implement this ) as I do using a '.' > example > > design.photoshop and design.technique so I will have a tree structure > like this : > >> - design >>> - photoshop >>> - technique > > and the same bookmark will be under both branches. For those that want a hierarchal system, I think this is a good solution. Myself, I wouldn't use it, because it reintroduces all the innate problems of hierarchy. Let's say I have a link about Photoshop, not related to design, but perhaps an article discussing UIs of various programs. I wouldn't want to put this in design.photoshop, but maybe a software.photoshop instead. Now I have to maintain two separate (and long, especially if it extends beyond two levels) tags, whilst Del allows for tag intersections (design+photoshop and software+photoshop) already. Hierarchy presumes that something in a child category automatically belongs in the parent category, which is not always the case. Currently, any notion of hierarchy/supersets has to be carefully and consistently maintained by users when adding tags because Del never makes them explicit. Often I find myself trying to find similar links to see what I've done before, so I don't forget a useful tag. How about displaying the user's list of tags by bundles on the posting page, to make visual scanning easier? Tools to aid in "set management", such as making selection of a tag automatically suggest "parent" (as defined by the user) tags which could then be selected (or not), would also be very beneficial. Tim -- Tim Larson West Corporation, Interactive TeleServices Eschew obfuscation!
