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For any EPrints users out there, there's an AJAX Tagging Tool for EPrints which interfaces with Connotea and Del.icio.us: http://www.connotea.org/taggingtool I've never used it. But, it's worth a look. Tim -- ======================================== Tim Donohue Research Programmer, Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) 52 Grainger Engineering Library University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign email: [log in to unmask] web: www.ideals.uiuc.edu phone: (217) 244-7809 fax: (217) 244-7764 ======================================== Chris Deweese wrote: > Hi Johnathan, > > I am currently using tagging here: http://www.lcls.org/tags/ > > We have a "news"/blog system we use to publish content (custom built). I > added tagging to it as a test. So far the staff like it. We are now > organizing a lot of our documents using tags. > > I plan on using tagging more often because it gives me a way to link data > together very easily. On different parts of the site I'd like to aggregate > data from a couple of our own sources as well as possibly remote sources > (mashup style). > > The code is all ASP.NET with MySQL at the back end. I am testing a tag > design right now that uses MySQL fulltext, but I may change that. As it > works now I have a text field called tags for each news post. I also have a > tag index table that stores all the tags and how many times they are used. > Each time an item is added the tags are sorted and the code determines if > its a new tag or if it just needs to update the count for an existing tag. > Likewise when something is removed, the tag count is decreased > appropriately. > > Chris > > -------------------- > Chris Deweese > Internet Applications Developer > http://www.lcls.org > Lewis & Clark Library System > 425 Goshen Road, Edwardsville IL 62025 > 618-656-3216 x130 > AIM: ChrisDeweese25 > --------------------- > > Illinois Library Systems - 40 Years of Excellence > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Rochkind [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:50 AM > To: Chris Deweese > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] tagging > > > >> I would love to implement tagging for my consortial catalog, but we're not >> quite there yet. I have begun to use tagging in other ways and I think it >> is great; especially if you want to do a "mashup" or aggregate data from >> multiple sources based on a tag. >> > > Could you post more about the other great ways you have begun to use > tagging, if you're willing? > > Interested, > --Jonathan > > >> I imagine some people see tagging as some trendy fad; maybe it is, but I >> think it should be taken very seriously and people should really consider >> implementing it. There are lots of discussions out there about storing tag >> data and formulas for generating tag clouds. >> >> --this message is a little late in the conversation. Eric had to hook me >> > up > >> with the ability to post since I was trying to post from a diff address >> > than > >> I registered with. >> >> Chris >> >> -------------------- >> Chris Deweese >> Internet Applications Developer >> http://www.lcls.org >> Lewis & Clark Library System >> 425 Goshen Road, Edwardsville IL 62025 >> 618-656-3216 x130 >> AIM: ChrisDeweese25 >> --------------------- >> >> Illinois Library Systems - 40 Years of Excellence >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of >> Eric Lease Morgan >> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 9:48 AM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] tagging >> >> >> On Mar 8, 2006, at 2:29 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: >> >> >>> I'm wondering, to what degree does this group here think tagging >>> would be beneficial in Library Land? For example, we could allow >>> tagging to be done against items in a library catalog or against a >>> personalized collection of Internet resources. If it were >>> beneficial, then how would y'all implement it? >>> >> Based on the responses, it sounds as if our small community believes >> there are benefits to tagging, especially if the tags are not >> necessarily anonymous. I will think about this some more, play with >> del.icio.us some more, and consider incorporating this feature into >> MyLibrary. Hmmm... >> >> -- >> Eric "Off To Ann Arbor To Attend Cool Symposium" Morgan >> > >