[Sigia-l] Tag separators in text fields - standardise please

[sfensore at kent.edu]

> 71% of your 577 unique tags are single words 
>      That's unique tags - my 79% was of applied tags (thus including 
> tags I use more than once). Doing a similar re-comparison with mine: 
>      78% of my 600 unique Flickr tags are single words 
> 
> Paola 
> 

So, that leaves anywhere between 21-29% (the multi-word tags) left to be ambiguous (based on this very small sample).  Any way you look at it, that's a huge margin to allow error.  

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Paola Kathuria <paola at limov.com> 
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:06 am 
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Tag separators in text fields - standardise please 
To: Scott Nelson <skot at penguinstorm.com> 
Cc: SIGIA-L <sigia-l at asis.org> 

> Paola Kathuria wrote: 
> >> Mail me a link to a public profile page and I'll analyse yer tags. 
> 
> Scott Nelson wrote: 
> > Giddy up. My cloud is at the bottom here: 
> > http://personal.penguinstorm.com/ 
> 
> 71% of your 577 unique tags are single words 
> 
> That's unique tags - my 79% was of applied tags (thus including 
> tags I use more than once). Doing a similar re-comparison with mine: 
> 
> 78% of my 600 unique Flickr tags are single words 
> 
> 
> Paola 
> 
> 
> P.S. 
> 
> Wordle uses tilde ~ to keep words together. 
> 
> http://wordle.net/ 
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