I thought we used to have both comments and tags, and felt that was a
good thing. I agree with michael. Organizing and annotating are two
quite different activities and it will be useful to have both. In
particular if I want to remember something complex about a given object,
I may need a lot more than a few words, so tags will be inadequate. Of
course I might then turn around and wish I could use text search on the
comments to find stuff based on the annotations I made. And it it might
be fun to have a wikish feature that parses my annotations for tags
that should be applied implicitly (either based on camelCase, or based
on text matches with preexisting tags).
Michael Homeijer wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:stefanom_at_mit.edu]
>>Michael Homeijer wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>Does piggy bank have the ability to add comments to collected data
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>and
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>>>share/publish these comments?
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>>It used to, but we turned it into tags.
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>>Do you think that having tags + comments/notes would be helpful? If
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>so,
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>>how would you envision your interaction with the system?
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>The tags make it easier to browse information, comments and notes
>probably improve collaboration and communication. The interaction with
>the system might be the same as with tagging information, it could also
>be a separate action to annotate content.
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>Maybe http://www.imarkup.com/products/annotate_page.asp gives some ideas
>on the subject.
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>Michael
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Received on Sun Oct 23 2005 - 12:40:01 EDT