Re: what tag should we use?

Posted by Patrick Dinnen on Jan 08, 2006; 7:03pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/what-tag-should-we-use-tp136p144.html

Well, I'm no folksonomist but... I guess the benefit of having a
standard tag for stuff related to the group is that it makes that stuff
much easier to find.

At its simplest a tag is a single word that is manually attached to data
on various platforms that support tagging (blogs, flickr, del.icio.us
etc) to indicate that the information relates to a specific topic (in
this case COACID). The benefit of settling on a single tag to use for
the group is that it allows people to easily find all the material that
was tagged with the intention of including it in that group (stuff
relevant to COACID). If different people use different tags to mean the
same thing then a lot of the benefits of simplicity and findability are
lost.

Not sure if I'm explaining this well, but perhaps that helps.

Patrick

Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:

> OK!
>
> Just so I understand, and because i'm a little green on all this, can
> you explain the significance (not how to!) of tagging, and why is the
> choice of only one important?
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> Patrick Dinnen wrote:
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>>My preference is for civicacc as Stephane suggests, slightly more
>>memorable. Mostly though it's important that we settle on one, and only
>>one, tag. What exactly the tag is isn't so important.
>>
>>Patrick
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>>Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
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>>>both?
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>>>Stephane Guidoin wrote:
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>>>>I would have said that civicacc or civacc was correct (at least not
>>>>used for the moment in del.icio.us for example), but we can take
>>>>coacid also.
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>>>>Stef
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>>>>Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
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>>>>>coacid
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>>>>>Michael Lenczner wrote:
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>>>>>>for delicious / flickr / etc?
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>>>>>>coacid is a bit hard to remember and it's in english, but it is very unique.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>civacc is easier, but less unique and so a larger chance that garbage
>>>>>>could make it's way in.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Unless anyone thinks otherwise i'm going to suggest that we go with "coacid".
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