Tagged Journal Proposal

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

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C. Scott Ananian wrote:
| On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
| <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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|> C. Scott Ananian wrote:
|> | A hand-drawn proposal for what a Journal supporting "directory
|> | traversal" as well as tag space exploration is in the attached PDF.
|> | Discussion welcome!
|>
|> Could you please point me to a description of the semantics for these
|> "ordered tags"?  Since I do not know how the tags are meant to work, I
|> cannot provide any feedback on the UI.
|
| Previous discussion:
|  http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-September/008432.html
|
| Briefly: in addition to specifying multiple tags as "a b c" you can
| also separate some of the tags with slashes, like "a/b c".  A search
| for "a/b" only turns up entries tagged "a/b" not entries tagged "b/a"
| or "a b", although a search for "a b" turns up all of them.

OK, so if I understand you correctly, you are not actually adding any
semantics at all to the tags.  What you are saying is that I can tag
objects with arbitrary strings that may include the "/" character, and
then filter objects by substring search on their tags.

- --Ben
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