David Weinberger at Many-to-Many pointed me to Tom Coates’ post about different schools of thought regarding tags. Coates has been thinking about tags as keywords, annotations. Thats how I’ve been using and thinking about tags too, but some people have different ideas.

…At the end of the argument I said to Joshua that it was almost like he was treating tags as folders. And he replied, exasperated, that this was exactly what they were.

Exasperation aside, Coates is pretty sure that Joshua’s view is loosing currency and the keywords view is growing.

Wienberger offers this explanation: we use tags as folders to organize things for ourselves, but we use tags as keywords as a way to contribute to the social understanding of things. That’s what Yahoo’s Social Search is trying to leverage.

Related: Google’s War On Hierarchy.

tags: annotating, annotations, culture war, david weinberger, folders, folksonomy, keywords, schools of thought, search, social search, tag, tag cloud, tagging, tags, taxonomy, tom coates, yahoo social search

Posted July 22, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: annotating, annotations, culture war, david weinberger, folders, folksonomy, keywords, schools of thought, search, social search, tag, tag cloud, tagging, tags, taxonomy, tom coates, yahoo social search.

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