Comments on: Zigtag for social semantic tagging http://haleyai.com/wordpress/2008/06/25/if-you-tag-like-me-zigtag-is-it/ systems that know and understand and think and learn Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:50:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Great Article on Zigtag « Zigtag’s Weblog http://haleyai.com/wordpress/2008/06/25/if-you-tag-like-me-zigtag-is-it/#comment-278 Great Article on Zigtag « Zigtag’s Weblog Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:39:14 +0000 http://haleyai.com/wordpress/2008/06/25/if-you-tag-like-me-zigtag-is-it/#comment-278 [...] Article on Zigtag Posted on June 27, 2008 by Scott Montgomerie Zigtag got a great writeup from one of our users, Paul Haley, on his blog.  The article describes the differences between [...] […] Article on Zigtag Posted on June 27, 2008 by Scott Montgomerie Zigtag got a great writeup from one of our users, Paul Haley, on his blog.  The article describes the differences between […]

]]> By: Scott Montgomerie http://haleyai.com/wordpress/2008/06/25/if-you-tag-like-me-zigtag-is-it/#comment-277 Scott Montgomerie Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:16:39 +0000 http://haleyai.com/wordpress/2008/06/25/if-you-tag-like-me-zigtag-is-it/#comment-277 Paul, thanks for the great article. I'd like to respond to a few points in your article for clarity. First, we will be releasing an API in the next few months allowing you to access our semantic ontology and much of the data that we are gathering. This will include a similar API to delicious', which will allow you to get information on your bookmarks, tags, groups, etc., but it will also allow access to our ontology. Whether or not the API will use OWL as its format is to be decided, but if there is a market demand for OWL export, we will be happy to provide that. One of our goals with this API is to develop a platform for others to use our ontology in their applications. For example, we're considering having the first application built on this platform be a wordpress plugin that would allow people to tag their blog articles semantically. If anybody has any other cool ideas for us to develop for our API, please contact us. In terms of opening our ontology, we will also be providing a way for users to add, edit, and delete defined tags. Initially, this will be limited to trusted users, but eventually we'd like to expand it into a wikipedia-like community process. As for recommendations, we have just (as of yesterday) implemented friend recommendations, and group recommendations are coming soon - great idea Paul! Our tag recommendation system is continually improving both algorithmically and with the number of bookmarks in the system, as we want to make adding tags as easy as possible. We're trying hard to build a powerful next-generation tool that everyone will use, so if you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to contact us (contact at zigtag.com). Paul, thanks for the great article.

I’d like to respond to a few points in your article for clarity.

First, we will be releasing an API in the next few months allowing you to access our semantic ontology and much of the data that we are gathering. This will include a similar API to delicious’, which will allow you to get information on your bookmarks, tags, groups, etc., but it will also allow access to our ontology. Whether or not the API will use OWL as its format is to be decided, but if there is a market demand for OWL export, we will be happy to provide that.

One of our goals with this API is to develop a platform for others to use our ontology in their applications. For example, we’re considering having the first application built on this platform be a wordpress plugin that would allow people to tag their blog articles semantically. If anybody has any other cool ideas for us to develop for our API, please contact us.

In terms of opening our ontology, we will also be providing a way for users to add, edit, and delete defined tags. Initially, this will be limited to trusted users, but eventually we’d like to expand it into a wikipedia-like community process.

As for recommendations, we have just (as of yesterday) implemented friend recommendations, and group recommendations are coming soon - great idea Paul! Our tag recommendation system is continually improving both algorithmically and with the number of bookmarks in the system, as we want to make adding tags as easy as possible.

We’re trying hard to build a powerful next-generation tool that everyone will use, so if you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to contact us (contact at zigtag.com).

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