[Tagdb] Over tagging fields?

[Joshua Lippiner]

Thanks Otis - but I am still more curious about all your opinions on whether
or not a system should really ever HAVE more then one tag associated with an
item.  If the item is a book, should there only be one tag field that is
used to describe the book, the author, everything about it OR are users
better off in the end of the day having TWO fields, one for the book overall
and one for the AUTHOR.  

This is more a Web 2.0 architecture question then anything else.  Should
there ever be more then ONE tagging field associate with an item?

 

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 If you prefer power and flexibility, keep things separate.
If you are using RDBMS for your system, also think about how large your tags
table(s) will be.
Even if you have a common place/table for your tags, you could add a 'type'
identifier to each record, so you can narrow searches/joins to a specific
type, which may or may not speed thngs up, at least in RDBMS world,
depending on your DB, your indices, etc.

Otis
 
----- Original Message ----
From: Joshua Lippiner
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Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 10:27:39 AM
Subject: [Tagdb] Over tagging fields? 
 
    Hello  All, 
   
 I am new to this  group and checked the archive but didn't really find any
direct answers to this  question: 
   
 In Web 2.0  Applications, should any group of items ever have more then one
tag field? 
   
 In the last post,  Colin mentioned tags for articles, sponsors and
products.  It made me start  wondering about rules for too much tagging.  As
an example, take book  cataloging.  When developing a tag system for books
should you only allow  tags on the book level or should you also allow tags
at the  author level?  Doing both would allow users to describe a book AND
authors separately but then how do you deal with tag searching?  Does the
user have to specify that they only want to search the book tags or author
tags  or do you search everything together?   
   
 Before figuring out  the schema for my tagging system, I need to figure out
this more fundamental  issue.  It seems it is a critical aspect of Web 2.0
tagging  applications.    
   
 What is everyone's  thoughts on this? 
   
 Thanks, 
   
 Josh
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