Comments on: Video Search vs Tagging http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/06/19/video-search-vs-tagging/ This is the blog of Brooks Andrus. Here, at irregular intervals, you may find digital noise centered around the activities of an early 21st century technologist. I work for TechSmith Corporation, but this web space and the views found on it are entirely my own. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:39:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian Lesperance http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/06/19/video-search-vs-tagging/comment-page-1/#comment-47374 Brian Lesperance Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:37:35 +0000 http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/06/19/video-search-vs-tagging/#comment-47374 I am stuck in the forest with you, I too don’t see tagging as a game changer. The upfront work is enough to keep tagging from becoming a standard part of the online experience. Taking it a step further the fact some manual input has to be entered at all makes the results unpredictable at best. And for me, this is where tagging really falls short. I’m never sure if I’m getting an exhaustive view of any topic, even one I self tagged. I am far from an expert on this area, but it seems some bare minimum standard for what metadata will ride along a piece of media would be nice. Even just having the contextual metadata you mention would be an enormous step in the right direction. I am stuck in the forest with you, I too don’t see tagging as a game changer. The upfront work is enough to keep tagging from becoming a standard part of the online experience. Taking it a step further the fact some manual input has to be entered at all makes the results unpredictable at best. And for me, this is where tagging really falls short. I’m never sure if I’m getting an exhaustive view of any topic, even one I self tagged.

I am far from an expert on this area, but it seems some bare minimum standard for what metadata will ride along a piece of media would be nice. Even just having the contextual metadata you mention would be an enormous step in the right direction.

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