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

[Oliver Charles]

You're right actually, now that I've thought about it... the tag
system would work quite nicely, and would require less additional
coding to make it work. Also, because tags can be submitted through
the web service, we can have dedicated collection management
applications intergrate with MusicBrainz almost straight from the
get-go... seems like a good idea :)

- Ollie

On 9/26/07, Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen <freso.dk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/9/26, Oliver Charles <oliver.g.charles at googlemail.com>:
> >I've had this idea and bought it up a few times, but I think you're
> >over complicating it. Why do we need special tags per user? Then you
> >won't be able to easily make a page listing everyone who owns/wants
> >this, without creating some code first.
>
> The system isn't able to list all tags (e.g. "folk", "rock", "jazz")
> added to an entity as it is? If so, this wouldn't be different
> ("folk", "jazz", "owned-dupuy", "owned-freso", "wanted-dmppanda").
> (I haven't had time to play with this system on the test server, so I
> honestly don't know how it works.)
>
> >If the search system was enhanced slightly to support showing all tags
> >by certain users (may well already be possible with lucene queries)
> >then we've effectivly got a large part of the task already
> >accomplished.
>
> That would also be a way. We could also then see how many "own" an
> entity, how many "want" it, and how many call it "folk" vs. how many
> call it "jazz" and make nice graphs and charts and .. showing the
> comparisons! :D
>
> >My thoughts against it? Well, it's not exactly how I feel tags should
> >be used. While I think tags should very much be a personal thing and
> >not only made with the intention of social benefits, I'm not sure this
> >is a perfect application of tags. I plan to use tags to fill out the
> >genre field in iTunes for one - and I don't want every single item to
> >have "I own this" – that's obvious!
>
> I'm assuming iTunes/Picard/... won't be accessing MB's db directly. I
> am also assuming they won't be screen-scraping MB (even though it
> probably wouldn't be making a difference, read on). This means that it
> will probably interface with some kind of MB service, which means MB
> is in control of what is put out. This means that MB is free to filter
> out "wanted-foo" and "owned-bar" tags. This also goes for the tag
> listing on the MB pages.
>
> I really don't see the harm in using the tagging system for this. In
> fact, I think it would be an excellent application thereof. +1 from
> me. :)
>
> >MusicBrainz definitly needs some type of own/want feature though!
>
> --
> Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen <http://freso.dk/>
>
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