The W3C Mulitmedia Semantics Incubator Group have published a textbook definition of "collaborative tagging use cases" in their Wiki . They have quite rightly highlighted one of the limitations of tag-based annotation.
i.e.
"Personomy reuse is currently not easily possible as each platform uses ad-hoc solutions and only provides tag navigation within its own boundaries: there is no standardization that regulates how tags and relations between tags, users, and resources are represented. Due to that lack of standardization there are further technical issues that become visible through the application programming interfaces provided by some tagging platforms:"
What's a Personomy? - An aggregate of an individual's tag vocabulary.
What's a Folksonomy? - A collection of all personomies.
Ok, so essentially what these guys are saying is that it's going to be virtually impossible to police the tag vocab and stop folk stamping on each other's personomies, thus greying the margins of an individual's tag verbage.
This is where we feel HubTag plays an important role, giving individuals the opportunity to form unique tag words that will help keep their personomies as individual as they so wish.
HubTag's are very much for the masses, they are the equivalent of street words, quick to make, ready to use. The W3C are still pursuing their own solution to the current limitations, and are currently developing a standard vocab called SKOS Core (Simple Knowledge Organisation for the Web) that should eventually provide enterprise users with cross-platform tag standards.
In the meantime we hope you continue to enjoy creating original HubTags for your own personomies.
kind HubTags -
Jonty
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