http://tharrisphd.disqus.com/Exploring the interface of biology, bioinformatics, and design.enThu, 18 Sep 2008 10:05:38 -0000http://toddharris.net/blog/2008/09/17/the-24-poor-mans-social-media-expression-pattern-database-pomasomeexppada/#comment-2509988Jeroen -<br><br>Great suggestion! I'll update our tags to reflect this.tharrisThu, 18 Sep 2008 10:05:38 -0000http://toddharris.net/blog/2008/09/17/the-24-poor-mans-social-media-expression-pattern-database-pomasomeexppada/#comment-2509987Maybe you should consider formatting your tags using <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157594497877875/" rel="nofollow">machine tags</a>.<br><br><blockquote>Machine tags have a namespace, a predicate and a value. The namespace defines a class or a facet that a tag belongs to ('geo', 'flickr', etc.) The predicate is name of the property for a namespace ('latitude', 'user', etc.) The value is, well, the value.</blockquote><br><br>A tag as <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wormbase/tags/ifg1/" rel="nofollow">ifg-1</a> has not much meaning in itself, but a tag in the format wormbase:gene=ifg-1 has already a lot of semantic meaning, allows for other machine tags in the same style, like wormbase:strain=UL912 or flybase:gene=CG42321, and allows for more precise querrying via the API.Jeroen Van GoeyWed, 17 Sep 2008 22:04:47 -0000