Saturday, July 09, 2005

Categories for tags (over 30 collections !)

(To follow the discussion you need to start reading from the bottom of this site.)

I am looking for online videos that are free to watch, good quality and gives information about physical exercises. We are collecting links to a public link collection at www.blinklist.com . Links are recognized by keywords called “tags” and we are using “XO” to make a category for physical exercises.

I recommend using XO, but if you forget it, it is not a problem. Blinklinks are easily searched. Just make your links public so that others can see them too. You can also email me links and I will publish them, if you don’t want to register to Blinklist.

I searched for online videos yesterday. A very good source is Yahoo video search. I have not exported much links from there yet. Looks like there are more videos online than I was expecting. To make our collection of links more useful we might need a taxonomy? (Maybe we will use one from a library in future?)

At the moment we might tag our links using tags like:
xo, budo, karate, judo, aikido, martial arts, collection, technique, show, presentation, television program, documentary, exercise, instructions, education, rehabilitation, aging, “video format”, “duration”, “address”.

Using keywords is a personal thing. We have our one unique way of thinking and in small collections like this, we can use personal taxonomies. (If the link collection is published on a library website, it needs to be restructured.

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