[Tagdb] Flickr clustering

[Nitin Borwankar]

ogjunk-tagdb at yahoo.com wrote:

>Yeah, I noticed those the other day, too.  Unfortunately, the clusters
>are static, aren't they?  Nice, nevertheless! :)  I may start showing
>some dynamic clusters in Simpy's UI, probably in the next release.
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>Otis
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So (trying to understand tag clusters in non-tag language),  a tag 
cluster is a semantic context  - i.e. "people"- with "friends","beach" 
etc is a cluster that emerges natuarlly out of the existing photos on 
flickr.

On a set of tags marking a corpus of scientific (natural + social) 
papers  we may have "people" clustered with "tribes" "demographics" " 
behaviour" ...
while "animals"  may be clustered with "habitat" "forage" "food chain" .....

Basically words have meaning in a context but here it appears we have 
two contexts - one created by the tag cluster and the other the 
underlying context (photos, science documents...) from which the cluster 
emerges due to tagging by external entities - humans.

A different group of tagging humans may induce different clustering on 
the same base context (photos,....).

Just random thoughts .....


Nitin Borwankar



>--- Philipp Keller <phred at citrin.ch> wrote:
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>>I just noticed: Flickr has got tag clustering.
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>>Flick tag "people" [1] is in the clusters "portrait", "friends",
>>"street" and "beach". I think this is phantastic..
>>I think they are going new ways with tags..
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>>[enthusiasm on]
>>I'm just super enthusiastic about it because I think tag systems are
>>going to the next stage..
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>>I think that browsing in the tags is too low level. Tag clusters are
>>a
>>level higher and it gives you much more overview..
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>>Ah, the guys at flickr are just cool..
>>[enthusiasm off]
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>>greets
>>Philipp
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>>[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/people/clusters/
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