Facing Tagging Data Scattering

Authors:
Oscar Díaz;Jon Iturrioz;Cristóbal Arellano
Affiliations:
ONEKIN Research Group, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain;ONEKIN Research Group, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain;ONEKIN Research Group, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain
Venue:
WISE '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Web2.0 has brought tagging at the forefront of user practises for organizing and locating resources. Unfortunately, these tagging efforts suffer from a main drawback: lack of interoperability. Such situation hinders tag sharing (e.g. tags introduced at del.icio.us to be available at Flickr ) and, in practice, leads to tagging data to be locked to tagging sites. This work argues that for tagging to reach its full potential, tag management systems should be provided that accounts for a common way to handle tags no matter the tagging site (e.g. del.icio.us, Flickr ) that frontended the tagging. This paper introduces TAGMAS (TAG MAnagement System) that offers a global view of your tagging data no matter where it is located. By capitalizing on TAGMAS , tagging applications can be built in a quicker and robust way. Using measurements and one use case, we demonstrate the practicality and performance of TAGMAS .