Re: VOTE: Tagging Proposal

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> Elias,
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> I guess the immediate benefit is to avoid having two parallel systems of
> tagging. This would complicate overall design. Categories are essentially
> tags associated with a blog id and created by the blog owner. In other
> words
> they are only different in scope and control - concepts that can be
> implemented using namespaces. And well ... unlike tags categories are
> hierarchical. But who said that that tags couldn?t be hierarchical ?
>
> In the longer run it will add flexibility to the way user categorize the
> content. In addition, by introducing tags at some point you will have to
> deal with closed taxonomy vs open-ended taxonomy issues. Having unified
> tagging system with namespaces may make the task a bit easier. Syndicating
> content that has categories and tags is another example (though it is a
> whole new discussion by itself).
>
> On the implementation side, you are right that having prefixes in the
> database is not the best idea. There are multiple ways to implement
> namespaces. The simplest is to add a namespace field. Or you can create a
> namespace entity. It will complicate design a bit but give you ability to
> use namespaces on other things in Roller. After all, when you introduce
> namespaces there is no going back. We started with XML ? a simple way to
> tag
> data. And look: now almost everything has a namespace.
>
> Andrei
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> Elias Torres wrote:
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>> Hi Andrei,
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>> I hadn't really considered what you are mentioning, but we already have
>> some of that namespacing functionality. For example, tags are associated
>> with a website id in the table. When we do blog/website tags we will
>> have another table for that. Using the prefix style of tagging in the db
>> introduces another level of complexity in the code such as parsing
>> strings when doing queries. Could you explain more of the benefits that
>> you see in your approach?
>>
>> -Elias
>>
>>
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