TagCommons

The TagCommons effort is operating something like a software project. The process is very lightweight, but has an important step that is often forgotten in discussions about ontologies and formats: for what purposes are we designing this? These days, a good way to look at functional requirements for software is to identify use […]

TagCommons is a collaborative, volunteer effort to get some agreements on the table quickly, to identify some needs and iterate on proposals, and ground the whole thing in applications.
The process is rather simple:

identify use cases and requirements for sharing tag data
identify means for meeting these requirements, such as ontologies, formats, clearinghouses, etc.
study existing proposals and […]