Comments on: My talk at WxWM2 on geotagging life experiences

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Out and About (part 2) | Alex Hughes Cartoons and Caricatures — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:40:34 +0000

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By: Gavin Wray

Gavin Wray — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:20:22 +0000

Hiya Kate. Thanks for commenting. The idea has grown some legs since chatting about it at WxWM. pindec has since made this example 'brumEmoMap'. The map currently pulls in items from flickr and Twitter. While I don't fully understand how a map like this is put together (!) to make a personal, auto-biographical map, it feels promising. Definitely think the technical elements already exist to make this idea real - just need to learn how it works!

By: Kate Hughes

Kate Hughes — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:12:36 +0000

Hey Gavin

Only just found this post. As I’ve already said to you I really like this idea. I hadn’t realised you were from Stockport. I lived in Marple from when I was 5 til when I was 9 – if we had this collaborative geotagging thingy I could have posted that on your auto-biography map!

Kate

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WxWM 2: The Hangover’s Hangover « WxWM — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:24:14 +0000

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By: Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:03:20 +0000

Tagging schemas (“folksonomy” is a good search term, being a portmanteau of “folk” and “taxonomy”) emerge by consensus. The geo-tagging schema in my blog post is well established, not least by virtue of its adoption by a major player like Flickr.

By: Gavin Wray

Gavin Wray — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:32:15 +0000

Thanks for the comment and the tips on triple tagging Andy.

Reading your post my understanding is that the technology already exists to start building up your own auto-biographical dataset through triple tagging, as long as you stick to your own self-defined tagging schema and system of values.

The issue of how to agree a consistent tagging schema, for collaboration, looks more tricky.

It’s great that less than 24 hours after Shona called up number 31 that the bare bones of an idea has been connected with some technical know-how. I’m beginning to see a way to start experimenting with this.

By: Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:06:24 +0000

The tools to "geo-tag" experiences already exist: blog about them and use triple tags to tag the posts; or triple-tag related pictures in the same way. My blog post Triple Tags on Twitter uses such tags, as does the included Flickr image, and then discusses their use in Twitter. We could also triple-tag such events, with, say, lifeevent:emotion=happy lifeevent:met=Bill_Bloggs