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The Web is changing. It’s moving toward a social web, a place where people can social and share knowledge. Central to this new Web is the idea of tagging — the ability to annotate Web resources with keywords. One question that many people ask is “what’s next?” Where will we go from here? What’s role for the Semantic Web in the social web and tagging?

taxonomy and naming convention for xhtml pages parts...

Where categories are managed by specialists in order to achieve the best classification, tags are users rough approximation of classification for a practical use. Here is a small proposal to improve flat hierarchy efficiency by patching it with some bits of categorization, while keeping the tags theirselves simple and natural...

Quelle est la différence entre ontologie et thésaurus ?

a blog on tagging

Aujourd'hui, il faut bien se rendre à l'évidence, le RSS est un truc de geek. Peu de gens savent exactement ce que c'est et à quoi ça sert, et parmi ceux-là même, tous ne l'utilisent pas réellement. A mon avis, le gros défaut de RSS de ce point de vue, c'est et cela restera cette horrible page en XML qui s'ouvre quand on clique sur le bouton rouge, et qui peut décourager durablement un utilisateur lambda. Tant qu'on n'aura pas résolu ce problème, le RSS ne sera pas grand public.

This paper examines user-‍generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification.

an experimental forum (bulletin board) using a flat hierarchy (tags)

use of meta tags to enhance content indexing