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Open Tagging
A month or so ago, I heard Drummond Reed talk about using XRI as an infrastructure for making open tags work. I was intrigued because it solved a real problem, and was a good way to understand the need for things like XRI. Now Drummond has written up exactly how he imagines open tagging working.
Posted by windley on August 2, 2005 10:42 AM
Comment from Randy Charles Morin at August 2, 2005 11:55 AM
I think you guys are over complicating things. Let's say, I want a tag for baseball. Why wouldn't I do this.
<a href='http://www.mlb.com' rel='tag'>Baseball</a>
I'm linking to a proper authority on the subject of baseball. Or even,
<a href='http://www.google.com/search?q=baseball' rel='tag'>Baseball</a>
or
<a href='http://www.kbcafe.com/search.aspx/baseball' rel='tag'>Baseball</a>
Comment from Phil Windley at August 2, 2005 12:08 PM
What if you don't WANT to specify the authority? I believe that's the original motivation for this. If you use HTTP to a relative URL (no authority) it is clickable and returns a 404--not good behavior.
Comment from Stowe Boyd at August 5, 2005 9:30 AM
Randy makes the same argument everywhere. He doesn't get the notion of a tag *not* explicitly referencing a known location on the web. When I declare a tag, I don't necessarily want readers to clink through to a specific place, but to allow other places to find that tag, and link back to my post. That's the open tag model I am advocating. See various Get Real posts with the "open tags" tag.
Comment from Kevin Marks at August 16, 2005 11:54 PM
Stowe, if you want a tag without a link, use <dc:subject> or <category> in your feed.
Don't pollute a link-based standard with bogus links that go nowhere, and confuse people who click on them.
Randy, only the 3rd of your examples is a valid tagspace in the relTag spec.