On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 08:39:30 +0000, Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com> wrote:
I've been thinking a lot and writing code to experiment with a Folksonomy module.
The Taxonomy on the fly module really isn't the same. The key bit of del.icio.us style tagging is the free form entry of multiple keywords. There should be no onus on the user to force them to select from a list and create new entries in the list if one's missing. It should just happen.
AFAIK, you've got it a bit wrong. The user doesn't *have* to select from a list, although the existing taxonomy terms are displayed. Anything the user enters is checked against existing terms (there is an option whether to be case sensitive or not) -- so, by suppressing the display of the term list, isn't this much like a folksonomy? But, one of the biggies that I have seen come up is personal vs. global tags. I don't see it as much of an issue, or rather, it just means that the user is a filter on the existing terms in some UI displays. There is also the awtags.module --> http://www.autowitch.org. I haven't looked at this at all. -- Boris Mann http://www.bryght.com