tag aggregation

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tag aggregation is a feature of some search, indexing, and bookmarking sites that collect tagged posts from many different sites, including IndieWeb sites, and present them for exploration by topic, and sometimes related or highly correlated topics.

If you’re looking for pages on individual sites that show all their own posts with a tag, or all the tags they’ve used, see:

• tag page
• tags page

IndieWeb Examples

IndieNews

The IndieNews project have tag aggregation going for it's multi-language mechanism by enabling sites to submit itself to one of the language sections by setting that section as a u-category and sending a Webmention for it.

Silo Examples

Examples from silos on their websites:

Past Silo Examples

• Delicious
• Technorati Tags results

Overloaded naming

The term "tag aggregation" is currently overloaded / ambiguously used.

This page uses aggregating tags as meaning across sites, imply multiple (remote) sources.

We decided to use a different name for a tagged posts on one site: tag page per the below brainstorming:

Brainstorming / existing use:

• tag feed
  • "feed" implies you can subscribe to it and that the content is reverse time ordered and updates often
• tag stream - Tantek Çelik :P brainstorm suggestion
• tag collection - Tantek Çelik ;) brainstorm suggestion
  • Kartik Prabhu points out collection implies curation which means something else
• tag exhaust - Shane Becker :P brainstorm suggestion
• tag page - Kartik Prabhu brainstorm suggestion
  • +1 Tantek Çelik phrase allows for many different models (including feed/stream or other presentations)
  • +1 Aaron Parecki my tag pages are also a feed, since they are reverse chronological and have microformats markup, but I prefer the term "tag page"
  • +1 Anthony Ciccarello I think of them using this term

See Also

• tag page
• tags page
• hashtag-cache
• Software Examples: Hubzilla, Diaspora, and Friendica have tag aggregation pages that show all posts with a particular tag from anyone on that instance, or followed by anyone on that instance.