16th
Tagging and the Semantic Web
Here is a short list of limitations which I feel the Semantic Web web will address:
- Tags do not provide enough meaningful metadata to make meaningful comparisons
- More information is needed besides their origin - Tags are essentially a full text search mechanism, although faceting helps
- Need more relationships between tags and the objects they pertain to
The solution, tags as objects
Allowing users to tag an object with another object we can make extremely interesting comparisons; discerning a lot more information about the original object becomes simple and accurate. With this type of interrelationship we can pivot through the data like never before, not with full text search but object graph linkages that machines and humans can understand.