[Web4lib] Lists versus Tags design idiom

[Chris Barr]

Here is a very nice project that uses both lists and tags:

Harvard Law's H2O Playlist: http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/

You create a list of citations on a topic and then you make that list 
findable via tags. Other users can then create new lists from scratch or 
based on a list they find. The system tracks the lineage of the 
derivatives and suggests other "playlists" with similar items or tags.

--chris



Walker, David wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I have a metasearch application [1] with a 'save record' feature.  Right now, I'm working on giving our users a mechanism to organize those saved records.
>
> I'm leaning towards using a tagging idiom in the interface [2], but have some lingering doubts. I've noticed, for example, that tagging is most often implemented for sites in which the user *generates* the content (e.g., blogs, flickr).  While sites that allow you to search and save records usually employ a list metaphor (e.g., amazon [3], istockphoto).
>
> Anyone have a good example of a (non-library) site that allows you to search and save things, and then *tag* them?
>
> --Dave
>
> [1] http://xerxes.calstate.edu <http://xerxes.calstate.edu>
> [2] mock-up: http://walkertr.csusm.edu/download/saved-records.jpg <http://walkertr.csusm.edu/download/saved-records.jpg>
> [3] Amazon apparently has a tagging mechanism, too, but it's rather (to me) obscurely implemented.
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> David Walker
> Library Web Services Manager
> California State University
> http://xerxes.calstate.edu <http://xerxes.calstate.edu>
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