[Tagdb] I agree

Bill Ward bill at wards.net
Wed Apr 12 00:12:57 GMT 2006


Regarding single vs multiple word tags - what does that have to do
with the database design?  Tags are strings, whether they have spaces
in them or not.  Whether to allow multi-word tags is a UI decision,
not a DB one.

I made a suggestion earlier which does have some bearing on tag DB -
split up the multi-word string into words and store those in addition
to the full string.  So if the user tags with "dog house" the entries
"dog house," "dog," and "house" would be stored.  You could even flag
"dog" and "house" as being derived tags, and perhaps the display logic
would ignore them, though the business logic would allow them to be
used in searches, but perhaps weighted less than tags that were
explicitly tagged "dog" or "house."

Other than things like that, I fail to see how the multi-word-tag
issue has any bearing on tag database design...??


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