Common Tag
"Common Tag is an open tagging format developed to make content more connected, discoverable and engaging. Unlike free-text tags, Common Tags are references to unique, well-defined concepts, complete with metadata and their own URLs. With Common Tag, site owners can more easily create topic hubs, cross-promote their content, and enrich their pages with free data, images and widgets..."
Further information on Common Tag
Last updated: 16 June 2009
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Web Companies Develop Common Tag Format
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PRWEB, June 11, 2009. "A group of Web companies announced today the development of a new tagging format for Web pages called Common Tag. The companies--AdaptiveBlue, DERI (NUI Galway), Faviki, Freebase, Yahoo!, Zemanta, and Zigtag--offer services that help publishers use semantic tagging to make their content more discoverable, connected, and engaging..."
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Yahoo! Announces Common Tag: Like The Meta Keywords Tag, But Even Better
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by Vanessa Fox. Search Engine Land, June 15, 2009. "Yahoo! recently announced their role in creating and supporting Common Tag, a new semantic tagging format. Yahoo! says that Common Tag makes 'web content more discoverable' and enables the community to 'create more useful applications for aggregating, searching, and browsing the web'. Their blog post mentions that they want to accelerate the structuring of the web, which aligns with their SearchMonkey launch last year, which they said was, in part, an attempt to encourage the use of structured data on the web. This brings to mind a few questions..."