managing data by users

As we are creating complex information as a way to enhance the sharing of knowledge(see creating content) it should be clear that managing becomes a big issue. First there are our layers, where we can mange information by the structure. The other way is to give users tools to manage it themselves. Folksonomy has proven its potential in managing information by users and Wouter has created a free-tagging module in our testbed.

We have made a concept called 'radar' to find any type of node in a same context. (Dries told me yesterday there is a similar model on the system, I should look it up). For example finding all your published information (my radar): an interesting way to quickly find reactions to your nodes. Every group has a radar (giving the content audience to the group) and we have a 'general radar' that is doing what most modules are doing independent at the moment (?q=blog, ?q=forum, etc). One extra list is created to cluster all the new or updated nodes/comment for you to make live easier.

The interesting part is that the tag cloud and radar have commonalities. The tagging is done by a box where you simply type in a tag and it links it to the node or user (and soon also groups). We have played around with it and noticed the tag implemntation can look very similar to the node implementation. First investigating the databases made clear it would almost be similar to the node-table second our publish-option and the audience are applicable for tags as well. Let me give an example. A tag can be private (just for you, like a to list). When we restrict a tag to a group it could mean the word has a specific meaning in the group (jargon). The audience is just similar as with creating content, you can make specific tag-clouds for contacts or for groups.