The Beauty of Tagging
Sep 21st, 2006 by Dan Blank
Matt McAlister looks at the pros and cons of tagging:“tags are hugely valuable. They expose important meta data at an abstraction level that was previously hidden in the Internet user interface. They are connective tissue allowing data sources to talk to each other in meaningful ways. And human-edited tags can balance the inaccuracies of machine automation that happens in any indexing exercise.”
