Everything is Miscellaneous. Categories, Links, and Tags. Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags This piece is based on two talks I gave in the spring of 2005 -- one at the O'Reilly ETech conference in March, entitled "Ontology Is Overrated", and one at the IMCExpo in April entitled "Folksonomies & Tags: The rise of user-developed classification.
" The written version is a heavily edited concatenation of those two talks. Flickr API. Straup says: [Note : I work here and this message was also sent to the API mailing list] We are rolling out a new feature called "machine tags" that allows users to be more precise in how they tag, and how they search, their photos.
Many of you may already be familiar with machine tags by another name (triple tags) or because you are already using them, informally, in your code (for example, "geo:long=123.456"). "Machine tags" is the technical term for the extra hamsters we've added to the Flickr servers to formalize how these sorts of tags are treated.