Flickr opens "Machine tags" to their entire user base

Submitted by Jonathan Hendler on January 26, 2007 - 2:49am.

Flickr seems to have figured out a nice, user friendly way to use tags that have relevance to the Semantic Web. Really great idea.

From the article:


Like tags, there are no rules for machine tags beyond the syntax to specify the parts of a machine tag. For example, you could tag a photo with :

* flickr:user=straup
* flora:tree=coniferous
* medium:paint=oil
* geo:cartier="plateau mont royal"
* geo:neighbourhood=geo:cartier

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