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On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 23:47:22 +0200 |
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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Tags work best when they describe narrow, clearly defined attributes, |
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> and the thing they are applied to can have one, two or more of these |
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> attributes or sometimes even none. Music and movie genres are an |
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> excellent example - there are only so many of them and for the most |
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> part one can tell whether a tag really is a genre or not. |
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There are more ways to search for a music or a movie than a genre: |
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What mood is it in? What are key elements of its plot or lyrics? |
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Where does it take place? For which audience is it meant? Which praises |
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has it received? What kind of style is it made in? What is it based on? |
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What is the attitude of it? What looks or effects does it have? Is it |
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appropriate for children? Does it contain explicit things? |
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Let's do this for movies. I'm looking for a ... |
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... serial killer (key element) that is scary (mood)? |
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Carrie, Halloween, Saw, Scream, ... |
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... musical (genre) that makes one feel good (mood)? |
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Aaja Nachle, Frozen, Grease, The Sound of Music, ... |
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... good versus evil (plot) based on comics (based on)? |
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Batman, Sin City, Superman, The Avengers, ... |
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... goofy (attitude) hero (key element) where nothing goes right (plot)? |
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Due Date, Faulty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mr Bean, ... |
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These are results from an actual movie recommendation site; similarly, |
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the same exists for music too, where you can for example look for a |
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female american singer-songwriter singing catchy contemporary country. |
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Getting back to Gentoo; when I would look for some package, I want it to |
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be a lightweight, do audio recordings, organize these audio recordings |
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and do effects on these audio recordings. So, I'll be looking for tags |
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like "lightweight, audio-recording, file-organization, sound-effects"; |
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if that's to broad, I can take two of them and test some of that. |
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Thinking about the different types of things to search for; I'm |
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thinking about ... |
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... what the characteristics of the software are |
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(light/heavy, new/old, extensible/modular/nonstandard, ...), |
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... what the software can do (record audio, organize files, ...), |
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... what category (browser, development, DAW software, utility, ...), |
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... what kind of interface the software has to me (CLI, GUI, ...), |
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... what interconnectivity the software has (internet, bluetooth, ...), |
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... and so on ... |
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We could make a list of types (some already mentioned above) and a list |
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of possible tags for that type to shape the tag system somewhat. |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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E-mail address : TomWij@g.o |
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