Re: Common Tag - semantic tagging convention

Indeed, you cannot do this merging: a ctag:Tag refers to the tagging 
event. So the concepts they refer to (ctag:means) might be the same, the 
Tags are not.

Cheers,
Peter

Yves Raimond wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Danny Ayers<danny.ayers@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Really good to see this work!
>>
>> May be nothing, but...it appears the tagging date is associated with
>> the tag. I assume most systems would want to infer that tags with the
>> same meaning were equivalent (even though this isn't specified using
>> IFPs or whatever). I'm a little concerned about what you'll get when
>> merging different doc's data with this assumption of equivalence -
>>
>> <doc1> ctag:tagged [
>>   a ctag:Tag
>>   ctag:taggingDate "2009-06-12"
>>   ctag:means <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/en/collaborative_tagging> ] .
>>
>> <doc2> ctag:tagged [
>>   a ctag:Tag
>>   ctag:taggingDate "2009-06-13"
>>   ctag:means <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/en/collaborative_tagging> ] .
>>
>> ->
>>
>>  [  a ctag:Tag
>>   ctag:taggingDate "2009-06-12"
>>   ctag:taggingDate "2009-06-13"
>>   ctag:means <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/en/collaborative_tagging> ]
>>
>> - which doesn't look very useful.
>>
>>     
>
>
> Yes, this indeed will give quite weird results. The tag ontology at
> [1]  tackles this issue nicely, by considering a tagging event and the
> tag itself as two different entities.
>
> Cheers,
> y
>
> [1] http://www.holygoat.co.uk/projects/tags/
>
>   

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