Hello @TarekJor & Co.,
A couple ideas I’ve been playing with, based on imageboards like Danbooru/Moebooru (https://github.com/r888888888/danbooru). There’s a test instance running at http://testbooru.donmai.us/ (CAUTION: may be NSFW depending on what’s posted there).
Implications:
When entering a particular tag, a second tag is also added to the tagged resource.
For example, you can setup “shirt” -> “clothing”. Tagging anything with “shirt” will also add the “clothing” tag.
I believe nested tags already do something like this, but I could not figure out how to make it work like I wanted.
Aliases:
Tags that get replaced with other tags, e.g.
“Gordon Sumner” -> “Sting”.
“gray” -> “grey”
Both aliases and implications in Danbooru are apparently a performance hit, especially if there’s a lot of them – they run the processing as a background job or on adding an image/video. I’m not sure what this means for something like Tabbles or if this can be done with a plugin. I mean to try, however. 🙂
It’s not a substitute for a controlled vocabulary, but these may be one way to implement something like it. The ability to disable adding new tags in the tagging interface would also help enforce a controlled vocabulary (it may already do this with permissions and multiuser and such, but I’ve only ever explored Tabbles as a solo user)
Hashing: Might be useful to identify duplicate files – for example Danbooru uses this technique for uploaded media and it’s storage – files are stored with an MD5 hash of the content rather than the original filename.
— Dan
