Tagging content on the web is all the rage, and with good reason. But as I gather tags over the years, I find that errors in my tagging habits have accumulated.
Someone should build a tag cleaner (for instance, for use with del.icio.us)!
Some “cleanings” should be obvious: things like;
- eliminating plurals (or making certain singulars all plural, where the plural tag also exists)
- changing British tag spellings to US, or vice versa
- bulk substituting synonyms to the most-used in the system
But you could also do fancier semantic things, like looking for pairs of tags that can be substituted for a single tag.
At any rate, it’s something that is really needed!
Contributed by Rob Smith
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I’ve just written a web tool for cleaning your del.icio.us tags: it can detect and merge your duplicate tags automatically. Available at http://delicious.isnotworking.com/
Comment by rnc000 — June 8, 2008 @ 2:43 am