Federal government technology managers have been weighing the merits of tagging content with metadata, and whether such metadata will be of value in the future. To Internet users who regularly tag content for Del.icio.us, Technorati, or Yahoo! My Web, the question isn't why tag but why not? But to the government, the jury is still out on tagging's place for content, a GCN "Metadata can improve search, if it's done using a structured vocabulary by trained experts," said Chris Sherman, associate editor for the Search Engine Watch Web site. "We're seeing computers increasingly be able to do categorization automatically, rather than relying on human taxonomies." FirstGov search operator Vivisimo, which created the Clusty metasearch engine, noted that metadata would be "nice to have" in the report, but has drawbacks. "Taxonomy building and metadata generation is expensive and laborious," said Raul Valdes-Perez, Vivisimo chief executive officer. Email the author Del.icio.us") | Yahoo My Web David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.
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