SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNITY TAGGING

• US 20080281769A1
• Filed: 05/10/2007
• Published: 11/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Hibbets, Jason
• Granted Patent: US 7,898,394 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/50
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

An embodiment relates generally to a method of organizing information. The method includes providing for a knowledgebase and providing for a first set of tags configured to be applied to items in the knowledgebase. The method also includes providing for a second set of tags configured to be applied to items in the knowledgebase and searching the knowledgebase based on at least one of the first set of tags and the second set of tags. The method further includes ranking result items in a search result favoring the result items tagged with terms for the first set of tags.

Claims

1. A method of organizing information, the method comprising:

providing for a knowledgebase;

providing for a first set of tags configured to be applied to items in the knowledgebase;

providing for a second set of tags configured to be applied to items in the knowledgebase;

searching the knowledgebase based on at least one of the first set of tags and the second set of tags; and

ranking result items in a search result favoring the result items tagged with terms for the first set of tags.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing privileges to the first set of users to designate the first set of tags.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing tagging access to a sub-plurality of items tagged by at least one tag in the first set of tags in the knowledgebase by the second set of users for tagging.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing access to the sub-plurality of items tagged with at least one tag from the second set of tags to the first set of users for additional tagging with the first set of tags.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing access to a subset of items in the knowledgebase only to the first set of users for tagging.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a status of an incoming item for the knowledgebase; and

providing access only to the first set of users for tagging the incoming item in response to the status being associated with a certified status.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising developing the first set of tags based on the second set of tags.

8. A system for providing and accessing information, the system comprising:

a knowledgebase configured to store information items associated with a community;

a portal configured to couple with the knowledgebase and provide access to the knowledgebase; and

a tagging module configured to be coupled with the knowledgebase and the portal, wherein the tagging module is configured to provide for a first set of tags configured to be applied to the information items in the knowledgebase, provide for a second set of tags configured to be applied to information items in the knowledgebase, and search the knowledgebase based on at least one of the first set of tags and the second set of tags.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the tagging module is further configured to assign privileges to the first set of users to use the first set of tags.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the tagging module is further configured to prevent tagging access to a sub-plurality of items tagged by at least one tag in the first set of tags in the knowledgebase by the second set of users for tagging.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the tagging module is further configured to provide access to the sub-plurality of items tagged with at least one tag from the second set of tags to the first set of users for additional tagging with the first set of tags.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the tagging module is further configured to provide access to a subset of items in the knowledgebase only to the first set of users for tagging.

13. The system of claim 8, further comprising a staging area coupled to the knowledgebase, wherein staging area is configured to store a new information item received through the portal.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the new information item is forwarded to the knowledgebase in response to the new information item being tagged with at least one tag from the second set of tags.

15. The system of claim 8 wherein the new information is forwarded to the knowledgebase in response to the new information item being tagged with at least one tag from the first set of tags.

16. The system of claim 8, wherein the first set of tags is developed from the second set of tags.