Thing #10

Is tagging consistency a problem? When I set up my profile here on blogger I listed "veggie food" as an interest, but later found out that "vegetarian cooking" was the term more folks were using. This blogger out of Stanford is wondering the same thing as me:

"Research problem -
Tagging as a new information organization and retrieval tool, one greatest shortcoming is its inconsistency. The tagging consistency is threefold:
Personal consistency that one user are tagging similar contents using consistent tags;
Collaborative consistency, that a community of users tag similar contents using consistent tags;
Cross-platform consistency, which means users among different internet applications tag similar contents using consistent tags."

Curious Creature is also calling for tagging standards.