Goals
The goal of OpenTagging aims to make tagging data open, more universal, and apply it across any number of social tagging sites. Through continuously user participations on the platform, users can make their customized folksonomies to organize their data by their needs and interests. The interaction of diverse objects such as users, tags, and resources on the platform brings emergent semantics of tagging data and leverages social connections among participants. In order to allow users and developers to implement the social capabilities underlying tagging data, the platform consists of the open data models, the export and sharing methods, a consistent platform for interoperating one's personal set of tags between either web-based systems, desktop, and mobile applications, or for transferring tags among the desktop, the web, or the mobile.
The OpenTagging Platform is an open framework that is scalable and interoperable with all existing tagging data from heterogeneous sources or applications.