[game_preservation] Descriptive terms for Video Games

[Andrew Armstrong]

Oh certainly it depends on who is using it. It'd just be my preference 
if I was using it.

Tag clouds are fluffy - categories (as a rule, written lists) are more 
precise; mainly even if you had one person doing the tags you'd get them 
remembering common terms wrongly, missing them, using similar but not 
quite the same ones and so forth; it can get rather messy where I've 
seen it used to find similar content.

Andrew

On 10/06/2011 10:25, Rowan Kaiser wrote:

> I suppose the question I have to ask is: how are you expecting to use 

> such a taxonomy? Will there be a physical/linear need for such system, 

> or is this something which can be searched in a non-linear fashion?

>

> If it's the former - yikes. I'd probably do it in some combination of 

> date and platform. Genre is too much of a mess.

>

> If it's the latter, I agree that MobyGames provides a decent starting 

> point in concept, with multiple aspects to several different 

> categories. I might even take it a step further towards the suggested 

> tag cloud idea, but I'm not sure how well that would work in practice.

>

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> Rowan

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