rose:rose=rose

Aaron Straup Cope
HackDay UK, June 15 2007

Hi, My Name Is Aaron

folksonomeansno

http://flickr.com/photos/simonscott/96399500/

dalek.exterminateByTag('chat')

http://flickr.com/photos/vikid/331610985/

Tagging is just another word for...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/washington/09military.html

But what does it mean?

http://aaronland.info/nytimes/related/2007/06/09/index.png

Who is on first?

http://aaronland.info/nytimes/related/2007/06/09/#id2248994

Doing it with a candlestick?

http://aaronland.info/nytimes/related/2007/06/09/index.svg

Obligatory Flickr Hack

http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2006/02/12/bacon/#flickrtags

sounds:like=“triple tags”

SEARCHIFIED!!!!

dalek:

http://flickr.com/photos/fuffer2005/196634949/

Syntax : Namespaces

/^([a-z](?:[a-z0-9_]+))$/i

dalek:cake=

http://flickr.com/photos/bollops/36841126/

Syntax : Predicates

/^([a-z](?:[a-z0-9_]+))$/i

dalek:exterminate=bunnyfish

http://flickr.com/photos/andricongirl/309417453/>

Syntax : Value

.+

machinetags:not=rdf

http://flickr.com/photos/mcbadger/336785072/

rdf:less=mor

http://yahooresearchberkeley.com/blog/2007/05/16/the-emerging-semantics-web-the-semantic-web-is-dead/

thisisthelessonofdelicious

joshua:hates=“machine tags”

(but he still wrong)

Tag as whatEV—AR

mt:search=“flickr.photos.search”

http://flickr.com/photos/bollops/429241282

$search_args["machine_tags"] = "dc:";
Photos using the 'dc' namespace

$search_args["machine_tags"] = "dc:title=";
Photos with a title in the “dc” namespace

$search_args["machine_tags"] = "dc:title=\"mr. camera\"";
Photos titled “mr. camera” in the 'dc' namespace

$search_args["machine_tags"] = "*:*=\"mr. camera\"";
Photos whose value is “mr. camera”

$search_args["machine_tags"] = "*:title=";
Photos in any namespace with “title” predicate.

$search_args["machine_tags"] = "*:title=\"mr. camera\"";
Photos titled “mr. camera” in any namespace.

$search_args["machine_tags"] = "dc:*=\"mr. camera\"";
Photos whose value is “mr. camera” in the “dc” namespace.

No, really

Like, totally

http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr/index.html?lon=-1.2578&alt=70&lat=51.7541&tag=shabbatagging&camx=-11&camy=8&camz=29

Way

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/173371/

Caveats

  • You can not do range queries
  • AND queries are limited to a maximum of 16 machine tags
  • OR queries are limited to a maximum of 8 machine tags
  • Wildcard search syntax is not available on the website
  • There is nothing sacred about namespaces

Ceci n'est pas une phone

Make it so

[appendix follows]

Appendix A : API Methods

Appendix B : Links