On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Proposal (off the cuff, please poke holes in this): We might beef up > | the HIG in the area of tagging, and even suggest a set of canonical > | tags for various types of content. (Localized, of course.) Combining > | this with Scott's "path-tags", we might introduce Images/, Videos/, > | Documents/, and Audio/ tags in such a way that we get the best of both > | worlds. The system can "automatically" file things away in a > | reasonable subdirectory of the Journal, but the kids can always find > | *anything* they've done, in chronological order, by looking in the > | Journal itself (before selecting one of these path-tags as a query). > > Please don't conflate a good idea with a bad one. Activities providing > localized metadata (both tags and key:value pairs) automatically could be > a very good thing. Even better would be internationalization: if > Activities use specific machine-readable words, then when objects are > passed around, those words can be localized for each user's Journal. > > This is completely independent from the "path tags", which would be useful > only when trying to maintain compatibility with non-Journal filesystems, > and are tremendously confusing otherwise.
Heh, Ben doesn't like path tags, it looks like. ;-) As far as I'm concerned, whether it's "Images/" or "Images" is a tiny implementation detail; I don't care much either way. But I'm not convinced that "Images" and "Video" etc are useful tags to add; both of these are already available via the "What" searches (ie, implicit in mime-type info). Someone mentioned that facebook adds magic image tags based on *recognizing the faces of your friends* -- that seems like a much better working example. If Record can automatically add a "Tom" tag to my pictures of Tom, that would *rock*. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel