tag aggregation

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tag aggregation is a feature of some search, indexing, and bookmarking sites that collect tagged posts from many different sites, including IndieWeb sites, and present them for exploration by topic, and sometimes related or highly correlated topics.

If you’re looking for pages on individual sites that show all their own posts with a tag, or all the tags they’ve used, see:

IndieWeb Examples

IndieNews

The IndieNews project have tag aggregation going for it's multi-language mechanism by enabling sites to submit itself to one of the language sections by setting that section as a u-category and sending a Webmention for it.

Service Examples

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Examples from services that aggregate posts from other sites.

Past Service Examples

Technorati Tags results
- e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20050623235320/http://technorati.com/tag/supernova2005
  🖼 needs screenshots

Silo Examples

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Examples of silos that only aggregate tagged posts from their own site.

Flickr

Flickr, e.g.:

https://flickr.com/photos/tags/indiewebcamp

Past Silo Examples

Delicious — as one of the earliest tag aggregation silos, aggregating tags of bookmark posts was its primary differentiator and what it was known for

Overloaded naming

The term "tag aggregation" is currently overloaded / ambiguously used.

This page uses aggregating tags as meaning across sites, imply multiple (remote) sources.

We decided to use a different name for a tagged posts on one site: tag page per the below brainstorming:

Brainstorming / existing use:

tag feed
- "feed" implies you can subscribe to it and that the content is reverse time ordered and updates often
tag stream - Tantek Çelik :P brainstorm suggestion
tag collection - Tantek Çelik ;) brainstorm suggestion
- Kartik Prabhu points out collection implies curation which means something else
tag exhaust - Shane Becker :P brainstorm suggestion
tag page - Kartik Prabhu brainstorm suggestion
- +1 Tantek Çelik phrase allows for many different models (including feed/stream or other presentations)
- +1 Aaron Parecki my tag pages are also a feed, since they are reverse chronological and have microformats markup, but I prefer the term "tag page"
- +1 Anthony Ciccarello I think of them using this term