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the problem I have with flat systems that uses tagging or meta data is that one day when adding pictures I might tag them as "pictures," another day I add some
by DigitalJack 12y ago
the problem I have with flat systems that uses tagging or meta data is that one day when adding pictures I might tag them as "pictures," another day I add some pictures and forget that i called them pictures before and this time call them "photos." A week later I might tag them as "images."
Makes searching and organizing a pain in the ass.
- jonjacky 12y agoBut also, "where in the (tree-structured) file system did I put those notes I made last year?". Strandh observes that a collection of tags is not so different from the names along a file path.
- otakucode 12y agoI see no reason why an intelligent system couldn't learn common synonyms. It would be a pain to do on an exclusively local system, but on a networked system it could trade tags with others and learn these synonyms. You might call yours 'photos' while I call mine 'images'. When I transfer a file from you to me, it would be able to translate the tags into my own personal folksonomy. Which would be more convenient than the current situation where I have to rename and integrate into my filesystem every file I download from you.