Archive for March, 2007

Ontologies Vs. Formats Vs. Schema Vs. APIs

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

The TagCommons Working Group is having a fascinating discussion about the mechanism by which a community can agree to share tag data. Here are some of the options before us:

point-to-point translation of static data files with a proprietary data format
point-to-point integration using data derived by crawling and screen-scraping sites
point-to-point integration using an API (REST, […]

toward a basis for sharing tag data