What is the OpenTagging Project
The OpenTagging (OT) Platform is an open framework that is scalable and interoperable with all existing tagging data from heterogeneous sources or applications. We can see three different scenarios of using tagging data from existing tag sources
- Individual perspective: Users participate in diverse social media sites by contributing to tagging activities. Although they are able to collect the tagging data resulted from these activities, the real challenge is to integrate and combine this data into a comprehensive personal view.
- Community perspective: On the side, users are part of different communities and projects, and interact with the members of these communities by sharing or exchanging tagging data between them. In this setting, a new issue arises, i.e. the reuse of the data across multiple communities.
- Heterogeneous environments: Regardless of the individual or community perspectives, tagging data can be produced in several environments, like on the Desktop, on the Web, or even on the Mobile Web. Even so, we want be able to reuse our set of tags indifferently of the environment. However, there is no consistent method for interoperation of tagging data amongst different environments.
The OpenTagging Platform is an open framework that is scalable and interoperable with all existing tagging data from heterogeneous sources or applications.