Future:Tag Standard

I'd like to propose a tagging standard for use by futures analysts working publicly on the web.

Why?


 * When we're trying to understand some area of the future, it's best if we can quickly cross-reference our available intelligence on the subject.
 * When we're writing about the future, our explanations will be more persuasive if we can back them up with trustworthy evidence. Video footage, news stories, authoritative sources (as well as explanations of why they are authoritative,) and so on. To do this easily, we need to have those links readily on hand.

For Whom?


 * Initially, this is intended for myself, Lion Kimbro, and whomever on the Futures wiki would like to contribute.
 * However, I expect that futurists in general may find value in this idea, and a larger populace may start tagging links this way, to aid the public discovery process.

Standard?

Standard, specification, recommendations, suggestions, whatever; We can make this better, more specific, as time goes by, if we like.

The Standard

 * tag items with "future"; to be more rigorous, include also: "ftfw" ("Futures tag, Futures wiki")
 * tag the projection year: "from2006" for a news article on the future from 2006; "from2005" for a video on the future that
 * tag the project year target, if possible: "to2020"
 * tag the projected range, if possible: "nearterm" "midterm" "farterm"
 * tag the medium: "article" "post" "comment" "video" "blog" "wiki"
 * tag a little about the source: "youtube" "washingtonpost" "newyorktimes" or "nyt"
 * tag the general field(s) of technology: "nanotechnology" or "nanotech" "space" "flight" "invisibility" "space" "games" "movie" "ai" or "artificialintelligence" (and so on)
 * tag the trend: "psychologicalneoteny", for example

It's not critical that every article is maximally categorized, classified, and so on. The important thing is to make this basically work.

Examples

 * Lion's tags on unalog
 * Danila's tags on del.icio.us

Please add your own tag source here, if you decide to participate.