Open tag

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An open tag system is often proposed, but the only real progress on it is at Daily Kos where they compile tags every day and match them to articles in dKosopedia.com - which uses GFDL corpus namespace topic naming conventions. In time this will make a very large database of all abbreviations and other labels used to indicate each topic - including some of the world's most contentious.

An open tag standard would then have to integrate the technologies of digg del.icio.us blinkbits blinklist blogmarks co.mments furl LinkAGoGo NewsVine Reddit Shadows Simpy Spurl technorati YahooMyWeb

[edit] Simpler to align wikis, align web and wiki

Treating a category as tag would make it simpler to adopt target categories as how to categorize pages could even be deterministic given a large number of tags per page.