Re: Common Tag - semantic tagging convention

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 12:37 +0100, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:
> Le 18/06/2009 16:46, Alexandre Passant a écrit :
> > I just reply to an e-mail from Toby on the topic on the commontag ml.
> > Since the archives are not yet public, let-me repost my point about the
> > mappings here.
> >
> > "A Tag in common tag is a tag a seen in Newman's ontology.
> 
> My understanding of Newman's ontology is that the URI tag:cheese (for 
> example) represent every occurence of the string "cheese" used as a tag.
> 
> This cannot work with common tag, since "cheese" can be used:
> - on resource R1 at date D1 as an AuthorTag
> - on resource R2 at date D2 as a ReaderTag
> 
> This practically forces us to define two distinct Tag resources, both 
> with the label "cheese", but with different types and taggingDate.
> 
> Of course, nothing prevents us from using the same resource, but in that 
> case, we would not know anymore which date and which tag type correspond 
> to which resource...
> 
> So the design of Common Tag implies that Tag resources should not be 
> "reused" across different tagging actions, which IMHO makes them quite 
> different from Newman's Tags (and close to Tagging, in fact).
 
Yes, exactly, that is the case.

>    pa
> 
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