Re: [OGDev] categories, locales and tags

Thanks Chris, for jumping in and clarifying, on both counts. Apologies Kake and others for my kinda cryptic example. So, the question is, "is anyone actually consuming tag data described using this ontology, and if so where can I see it in action?" Have I got that right? The simple answer is no, not really. Mainly because tagging tends to be seen as a Web2.0 thing, and ontologies as a Semantic Web thing. Consequently Web2.0 people don't think of exposing tag data in RDF (using this or any other ontology), hence things like rel-tag, and Semantic Web people don't have much tagging data in their own apps that they can readily expose in RDF. Revyu is one exception (although we only produce right now, not consume). This is starting to change, with things like Flickr machine tags being a big step along the path (I gather, but haven't explored them much), but still right now the short answer is 'no'. However, as with many things where the OpenGuides are ahead of the curve, a 'no' answer is not a reason to not do it ;) The biggest effort that's looking into these issues of tag sharing across services (with a view to making it easier to actually do something meaningful and useful with the data) is TagCommons <http://tagcommons.org/>, which will hopefully yield more movement in this general direction. RDF-based solutions have some decent traction in this group. So, assuming other people are interested and prepared to commit the programming effort, I'd say lets just do it, and work out the consuming applications later. I'm sure others will follow the same path in due course. What dya reckon? Cheers, Tom. On 30/03/07, Christopher Schmidt &lt;crschmidt(a)crschmidt.net&gt; wrote: