I think of it as Assign a facet to a tag.
I prefer to think of Labeling as the general act of describing an
item and Tagging to be a specific facet of the item. Tagging is a
"generic", semantic-free way to Label items.
So "For: David" and "Tag: Birthdays" would both be Labels.
Mimi
On Sep 26, 2005, at 4:09 PM, Davor Cubranic wrote:
Passin, Tom wrote:
If it is hard to understand the difference between a Tag and a
Facet, then it seems likely that most users won’t ever get to that
point. Either they will ignore the one, or treat it like the
other, or get confused and annoyed, and then go on as before.
So it’s hard or me to see how these concepts are going to work in
a practical UI. If I were to guess, I’d say that most people will
find the term “Tag” more familiar to begin with. Also, it can be
read as a verb, as in “I will tag this item”, whereas you can’t
say “I will facet this item”. Thus, “Tag” will associate with
action - perhaps as an invitation to perform an action - whereas
“Facet will not”. That would make “Tag” a much more active term in
its effect on many users.
Does one "facet" an item or turn a group of tags into a facet?
FWIW, I think I prefer the term "label", but "tag" seems to be pretty
trendy right now thanks to del.icio.us, flickr &co. GMail is one
prominent example that uses "label", as is Firefox (although in a very
limited form, with a maximum of five label types). I am not sure about
Outlook because I don't use it.
"Tag" is also punchy, almost (quasi-) subversive: "to tag" also
means to
put a graffitti or a graffitti-like signature on a building. :-)
Now if
we could only think of a similarly catchy term for "faceting".
"Dice the
tags"? "Fuse the tags"? ;-)
Davor
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