[mb-users] using folksonomy tags for personal collections/wishlists

[Bogdan Butnaru]

Sounds interesting!

On 9/26/07, Alex Dupuy <alex.dupuy at mac.com> wrote:
>
> Something that just occurred to me while replying to a random request for
> help, is that we could use the folksonomy tagging support to implement the
> often-requested "I have this album" / "I want this album" feature.
>
> There's no need to have voting and whatever on the contents of my personal
> collection and wishlist - while the current (still-in-beta) interface for
> the folksonomy tags isn't ideal for this, I think the back-end database
> support is.  And we can use the forthcoming support right away, with some
> simple conventions.
>
> If you have a release, tag it with "owned-<modname>" (e.g. I would use
> "owned-dupuy"); if you want it, use "wanted-<modname>" instead.
>
> Once there's some search capability for tags, you should be able to search
> your collection and wishlist.  You can (sort-of) do this already with the
> current (still-in-beta) interface by using the
> http://test.musicbrainz.org/show/tag/?tag=owned-dupuy URL interface (is
> there a way to add this to the search things on the left sidebar?).
>
> If this seems to be popular, the next next server release could treat these
> "collection tags" specially:
>
> * adding buttons ("I have this", "I want this") to release page that add the
> corresponding tag
>
> * filtering these tags from the standard tags view and displaying them
> separately
>
> * preventing moderator "luser" from adding "owned-otheruser" and mapping
> user-entered "owned" and "wanted" to "wanted-luser" automatically
>
> * maybe using a namespace-reserved character  (like ':') for collection
> tags, e.g. "owned:dupuy" to simplify this special treatment (we'd want to
> mass-convert the database if this is done)
>
> [I've also added this to the http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/FolksonomyTagging
> page - feel free to respond and/or comment there]
>
> @alex
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