Input API - Generating Keywords

[David Carpenter]

For a while we've been having discussions about 'better data' - and
one of the issues has always been the intelligent tagging of activity
data with keywords.

In a dataset that may not have the activity of your dreams (search),
presenting credible options/alternatives is important, and keywords
can help us do that.

A while ago we found the http://tagthe.net webservice that generates
tags from blocks of text (and URLs), and built a quick demo (see:
http://plings.info/wiki/index.php/Tag_Getter). Then we did nothing!

The problem with this was that there were lots of tags you would
normally want to reject - if only there were some sort of check list
of useful tags....

Well now there is. We reckon this page:
http://plings.info/wiki/index.php/Keywords,

is a pretty good place to start, and Ben has generated this code:
http://plings.info/wiki/index.php/Keyworderer

as a demo of how you could run your data through a matching process
and add keywords to your activities - auto-magically!

By using a pre-defined set of tags you can reject (or store and
examine later) tags without human intervention. Of course you can
always send tags that are not on our list - and we'd love to hear of
tags you think we're missing - but in the face of a good description
field with no tags - this might be preeety useful.

Check it out and let us know if this is of any use to you...

Cheers
David