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By: INFO 202 Fall 08 Blog » Taxonomic Tagging

INFO 202 Fall 08 Blog » Taxonomic Tagging — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:10:29 +0000

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By: Overcoming the big downside of tagging — the Human Factors Blog

Overcoming the big downside of tagging — the Human Factors Blog — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:09:09 +0000

[...] A less automated solution is a new product (also in private beta) called zigtag. Zigtag relies on you entering a keyword, but afterwards will suggest additional keywords. After entering an appropriate tag for a page, the user is presented with a list of matching keywords, each of which has been defined in Zigtag’s database. For example, after entering “Apple” into the search field, I was able to choose from “the computer company”, “the pomaceous fruit”, and “the record company”, among others. The process is painless and the integrated dictionary is fairly comprehensive. If you happen to stumble across a term that isn’t defined, you can easily request to have it added to the dictionary (and can place your own temporary tag). [Tech Crunch] [...]

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Might Diigo be your research tool? | AccMan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:43:10 +0000

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By: Zigtag, un gestor y red social de favoritos

Zigtag, un gestor y red social de favoritos — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:00:49 +0000

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By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:30:37 +0000

A short question to Jason:

I posted a blog entry a couple of days ago linkingto this one, but the trackback either didn’t work or you rejected it. I’m pretty new to blogging so I might have done something wrong, but please tell me how to adjust that so that the trackback would appear here (and for all future posts I reference).

My post is the last one at http://topify.wordpress.com

Thank you!

By: links for 2008-05-10

links for 2008-05-10 — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:45:45 +0000

[...] Tagging Goes Semantic With Zigtag The basic idea: each tag will be defined, and that synonymous tags (say, New York City and Big Apple) will be linked together automatically. That should make finding your bookmarks easier later on. (tags: folksonomy semantic web tags) [...]

By: peter

peter — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:27:41 +0000

Tom: You’re of course, right but I don’t recall seeing any libraries doing this with technology or on-line, though. Sadly, many still live in the stone age.

By: Tom Hayes

Tom Hayes — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:52:44 +0000

In the words of one of my co-workers, “can you say ‘controlled vocabulary’”? Welcome to the world of librarians. We’ve been doing this for over 100 years.

By: trond

trond — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:28:58 +0000

Just a heads up on Fuzzzy.com, a similar service (albeit not a sidebar-based plugin) that has been online for quite some time, and that also offers a web service interface for developers to use.

Figured it might be relevant to this article and its readers…

By: Webmaster Blog | Semantisches Taggen mit Zigtag

Webmaster Blog | Semantisches Taggen mit Zigtag — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:01:39 +0000

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By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:42:51 +0000

Sally and Ming and everyone else of course,

you are so right about the trouble of finding the correct words/tags to help readers discover your content. I think the problem with tagging is that one needs to make sure the main topics of an entry are very precise, so that it’s easily discoverable. Though first one needs to define “precise”.

Trying to figure it out in my project, so join in if you like
http://topify.w...ional-marriage/

By: Scott Montgomerie

Scott Montgomerie — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:19:13 +0000

Ming, a bookmarklet is available now – http://www.zigtag.com/install/. A plugin for IE is also coming soon.

By: Ming Yeow

Ming Yeow — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:11:50 +0000

What a fantastic idea – tagging suffers so bad from the lack of semantics, and lack of feedback (what should I be tagging so that I know how i can find my own stuff) and i am very much looking forward to using this when the bookmarklet is ready!

By: links for 2008-05-06 « interacting with stuff

links for 2008-05-06 « interacting with stuff — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:02:39 +0000

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By: Ben Good

Ben Good — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:44:11 +0000

I gave it a try and generally liked it though I look forward to the simplicity and portability of the bookmarklet interface when and if it becomes available. I have to admit I was a little disappointed to see it at first as we have been working on a very similar tool for a while now (http://www.entitydescriber.org). The main differences are that ours is built for the academic world (through integration with Connotea) and uses Freebase as the tag dictionary. The value of capturing the semantics right at the time when the user is engaged with the item they are tagging is huge… I’m very curious to see how the semantic tags added by the users compare with those added automatically. My guess is that they will be different and both be useful.

By: Sally Wu

Sally Wu — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:22:14 +0000

I am not great at tagging my own posts. And I am looking forward to there being a tagging tool to help out my readers. Just posted about what I hope to get out of zigtag (and/or other semantic stuff) here: http://webpoet....ging-assistant/

By: Nostradamus

Nostradamus — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:54:42 +0000

There are so many emerging semantic web companies now, but few if any make money. The only one that I’ve heard of that has the best semantic technology (quality, speed) is Relevad (www.relevad.com). It is growing really fast, been profitable for more than 2 years and has many high profile customers (ad networks, publishers, domain parkers, advertisers). Plus it has the best automatic semantic tagging and categorization system on the market.

By: micfo.com

micfo.com — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:10:35 +0000

The tagging in social bookmarking sites are most important, the feature of matching keywords looks impressive.

By: Ahmet

Ahmet — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:27:25 +0000

I just installed it, it takes a lot of space in the browser and the install is long for a Firefox plugin.
But I’m fan of the idea!

By: EH

EH — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:33:58 +0000

Couldn’t they just use Wikipedia as their tag library and save the data entry?

By: Erik Jonker

Erik Jonker — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:21:59 +0000

Isn’t the nice thing about tags that they are not semantic ?
Maybe chaos should rule in tagging, if in doubt add a few extra tags but try not to create a semantic dictionary. However i could be wrong, interesting to see how this develops. When the IE sidebare comes i will surely try it.

By: MyMesh.com

MyMesh.com — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:15:44 +0000

The semantic web is finally gaining traction…

By: Scott Montgomerie

Scott Montgomerie — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:33:08 +0000

Michael,
Zigtag can import delicious bookmarks, and a full delicious sync is on the way in the next couple weeks.

A fully public API, allowing the same level of access that delicious’s API allows, is also in the works.

By: Loren Norman

Loren Norman — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:28:18 +0000

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