[OGDev] categories, locales and tags

[Kake L Pugh]

On Thu 29 Mar 2007, Tom Heath <tom.heath at gmail.com> wrote:
> [1] http://www.holygoat.co.uk/projects/tags/

I don't understand everything on that page (I don't suppose there's a
simpler explanation for non-RDF people anywhere?  As in, _really_
simple, for Dummies) but I do like that they seem to agree with me on
the difference between a tag and a category.  That is, I think a
category is a consensus thing (as in OpenGuides) or a dictated thing
(as in, say, the Dewey Decimal system or something like that), whereas
a tag is an individual thing - "The goal of this ontology is to model
the relationship between an agent, an arbitrary resource, and one or
more tags."  (where an "agent" is an individual person)

So:
  OpenGuides category + username of person who first added it
gives an approximation of
  tag + agent
but it's an approximation only because the person will have been
affected by the consensus view of which categories are appropriate on
that particular guide.

Kake