Slovvy fait remarqué dans l’un des derniers commentaires qu’il ne sait pas si Delicious gère les tags de façon à réunir un même mot au singulier et au pluriel !
Effectivement, non, et c’est un véritable problème ! Nous avons le même problème sur Flickr d’ailleurs !
En 2004, cette question avait déjà été posée sur un blog et la discussion n’est pas terminée depuis !
Dans ce document détaillant le principe de Folksonomies et du tagging, il est clairement indiqué que ce sujet est un problème mais aucun conseil n’est donné.
These sorts of problems are the reasons why controlled vocabularies are
used in many settings. Generally, any of the classic problems that controlled
vocabularies help deal with will be present in these systems to varying degrees.
However, it is likely that a controlled vocabulary would be impossible in the
context of systems like Delicious and Flickr.
Wikipedia nous apprend aussi que
There are drawbacks to such tag-based systems as well: no standard set of keywords (also known as controlled vocabulary), no standard for the structure of such tags (e.g. singular vs. plural, capitalization, etc.), mistagging due to spelling errors, tags that can have more than one meaning, unclear tags due to synonym/antonym confusion, highly unorthodox and “personalized” tag schemas from some users, and no mechanism for users to indicate hierarchical relationships between tags (e.g. a site might be labeled as both cheese and cheddar, with no mechanism that might indicate that cheddar is a refinement or sub-class of cheese).
Quel est votre avis sur la question ? Quelle est votre expérience personnelle ?
Mise à jour : J’ai découvert ce document, les recommandations données sont les suivantes. Votre avis ?
At the moment, although there are no standard guidelines on good tag selection practices, those in the folksonomy community have offered many ideas. Ways in which tags may be improved are presented frequently on blogs and folksonomy discussion sites. In his article on tag literacy, Ulises Ali Mejias suggests a number of tag selection “best practices”. These include:
* using plurals rather than singulars
* using lower case,
* grouping words using an underscore,
* following tag conventions started by others and
* adding synonyms.
