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Meta-tags, or, the Dublin Meta Core

As we sort through tags, it’d often be useful to know who created a particular tag. And when. And in which application. And probably other stuff also. While some apps remember who created which tag (e.g., Flickr), as we begin to aggregate tags, we could use a standard way to express this tagging metadata…a Dublin Core not for objects but for tags attached to objects.

If this were to happen, it’s very likely to come from the apps that benefit from having standardized tag metadata. The most obvious suspects are the search engines. (Hmm. I may be re-having Mary Hodder’s idea.)

The technology is there, waiting to be used.

Let users tag whatever they need but change the systems that works with tags. Think about Semantic Web. Systems will need to get tags associated with a resource (picture, post, etc) and extract them. Then they will create a resource with each tags group and semantically link them. After, systems (search engine for example) will not just show results of “puck” tag if you enter “puck” in your search but also posts that contain “hockey”, “Gretzky”, etc. Take note that I’m not talking of showing related categories of tags.