Talk:Tag (metadata)

message: For a proposal to allow Tagging on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats#MediaWiki issues — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pigsonthewing (talk • contribs) 20:51, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Microformats proposal, 2009

message: I noticed a spelling error in the Hash Tag section. I changed the spelling 'favorite' (incorrect) to 'favourite' (correct)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jordaniair (talk • contribs) 14:56, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Favorite and favourite

message: I think that Facebook should be added to the "popular websites that use tags" section.  Not only is facebook a large website, but it's photo tagging feature is the first of it's kind (as far as I know, but I could be wrong.).  I propose adding the following entry (please, any input would be appreciated)
*Facebook – A social networking website that allows users to tag their friends in photos.  Tagged friends will have their name display if you hold the mouse over their image, allowing for easy viewing of pictures of a specfic person, as opposed to photos taken by a specific person.
DaRkAgE7[Talk] 06:54, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The word "tag" can have a variety of meanings, but the subject of this article is tags as pieces of metadata that classify pieces of data. Tags as currently implemented on Facebook are links to other Facebook pages: see Tag (Facebook). Biogeographist (talk) 17:41, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Facebook tags 

message: Hi everybody! I just went through and changed most of the article (I'd worked on it offline). I'm wary of making such major changes unilaterally, especially since I'm somewhat biased, so please discuss if I went too far astray on any point. One issue is that I didn't fully address the concerns in the "History" section above — this is tricky and I need to find more decent citations for the history of tagging. Dreamyshade (talk) 07:20, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major revision on September 21 

message: Wikipedia's categorization system is similar to a tagging system, except it also allows hierarchies, in which tags are given tags.  This should be mentioned. 71.167.63.236 (talk) 15:02, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hierarchical tags 

message: That subsection is not much use, since it tells us that Twitter (etc) messages can use hashtags (space in the subsection title; no space in the text: why?) but doesn't explain whether or how they differ from other types of tag. Loganberry (Talk) 01:14, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hash tags 

message: This text was added to the article today:
:An expanded tag is a user-generated tag that captures more than conventional keywords, they describe some additional aspect of a data object.  The expanded tag field takes the basic premise of tagging beyond just web pages to capture knowledge about structured and semi-structured data. It was pioneered by the Jumper 2.0 platform which collects expanded tags and stores them in a tag profile. The expanded tag fields allow users to input more than keyword knowledge, they can categorize the data, provide definitions, descriptions, annotations, add comments and notes to the data, capture the system metadata, ontologies and taxonomies, and much more.
It's only cited with two press releases, which is probably not enough to justify putting it in the article. It should have citations in reliable sources to show that it's not just a usage coined by one company. There has also been a lot of wiki activity supporting information about Jumper 2.0 recently (see the histories of Jumper 2.0 and Enterprise bookmarking), and I suspect conflict of interest, but I haven't been able to figure that out yet. Dreamyshade (talk) 18:13, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have expanded this with two other references one from the Journal of Information Science and one from the Business Intelligence Journal. Metadata is "data about data" it is any information that further defines another object of information. From the research it is clearly evident that bookmarking tags are both "tags" and "metadata". With the enormous popularity of bookmarking it seems relevant to the subject.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rabbasher (talk • contribs) 02:33, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: My concern is that the phrase "expanded tag" is not in common use, and none of the three citations for that paragraph mention that phrase, as far as I can tell. In other words, both the Journal of Information Science and Business Intelligence Journal articles are good references for this topic, but they don't serve as verification for the the paragraph that you added. Non-notable, unverified neologisms don't belong in the article. Still, I agree that tags on bookmarks are relevant to this article; the "History and context" section mentions bookmarking. (Note that these comments are not about my removal of the "see also" link to enterprise bookmarking — I believe that link is not very important to this article, which is why I removed it, but I don't think it hurts the article so I don't mind leaving it for now.) Also, are you connected to Jumper 2.0 in any way? I have a potential conflict of interest because I work for Delicious, so I feel comfortable editing this article only because I disclose my affiliations on my user page and have read the relevant Wikipedia guidelines. Dreamyshade (talk) 03:08, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed it for now, pending discussion and per the points above. Prodego talk 03:17, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expanded tags 

message: I've updated a broken link in this section.  However, as far as I can tell, none of the links demonstrate the history of triple tags as described in this section - they don't disprove it either, they're just several isolated posts talking about tags of a similar form, making no reference to one another.  There's no news-style discussion of "wider acceptance" or the development of the format.  It's all primary sources, which is a bit awkward. -- Shimmin Beg (talk) 09:22, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Triple tags