OddmuseTagging

Raw ideas concerning the approach of tagging in Oddmuse wiki. I have the idea to enhance it for my own use but I'm still wondering how ? The current module for tagging in Oddmuse is only supporting single word tag and the way for tagging is too heavy for my use.

Idea of a tagging server

Just the interface… The backend is another story (as you can see below regarding the potential datastore).

The interface is a minimalist POST/GET interface with the following approach :

• url (Base64 value of the url to tag)
• the tags (Base 64 value of the tags separated with a comma), !(exclusion tag possible)
• a key (an id to uniquely identify the user of the service)

If the url is not existing for the specific tuple (key,url) , the entry is added, with the corresponding tags.

If the url is existing for the specific tuple (key,url) tags are added for the non-existing one but we add access stats per existing tag.

The service could be used by webmaster lacking tagging on their web application but also for client-side tagging. The advantage is to share the two uses : server side and client side. That permits to share the result in the community share.

Perl Modules to consider

• http://search.cpan.org/~lbrocard/HTML-TagCloud/ (Don't reinventing the wheel is good at least for displaying the tag cloud)

Discussion about the datastore used for tagging

• http://www.pui.ch/phred/archives/2005/04/tags-database-schemas.html