Welcome to MachineTags.org/wiki

This is the companion wiki for machinetags.org, a place to document implementations, namespaces, machine tag theory, or whatever other machine taggy bits might catch your fancy.

What's a Machine Tag?

Machine tags are a form of tag that add semantic structure to tagging in a way both readable to humans and computers. Also known as “triple tags”, they originated in the geohacking community as a way to encode latitude/longitude data in tag systems like http://del.icio.us and http://flickr.com.

Known Machine Tags

Checkout the namespace page, and the predicate page for a list of machine tags known to be in use. Machine tags, like all tags, tend to conform to only a rough organizational and adhoc structure, so this list will never be complete or definitive.

Support for Machine Tags

The support for structured tags accross Web sites varies very much. This is a list of sites and programs that make use of structured tags

  • Flickr: Supports the geo namespace by importing photos into the Flickr mapping system. Supports tags of the form “upcoming:event=X” to link photos to events.
  • Del.icio.us: Uses the for:username tag to send bookmarks to another user. http://del.icio.us/help/for
  • Amazon Machine Tags Wordpress plugin: Appends information on books to posts in the Worpress blogging system based on tags with the form book:isbn=0123456789
  • ActiveTags: a Firefox extension that shows mashups based on tags that it detects on Web pages as a user surfs. Allows users to define their own mashups and the tags they are to be based upon.
 
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