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I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems. They're ubiquitous in software and have so many nuances, but I can't find anything on how to design and implement anymore more than the barebones basics of a system.
Some thoughts in a thread.
Some thoughts in a thread.
A tag is a metadata label associated with content, primarily used for querying and grouping. The tag name is also the id: two tags with the same name are the same tag.
Tags appear everywhere: #hashtags, wikipedia categories, blog post labels, AWS infra tags...
Tags appear everywhere: #hashtags, wikipedia categories, blog post labels, AWS infra tags...
Now, are `horse` and `horses` the same tag? They're different strings, but I'd be pretty miffed if I queried for `horse` and got only half the data.
So for serious querying we need some kind of relationship between tags
So for serious querying we need some kind of relationship between tags
