Commonplace Work

A note on faceted tags

Why namespaced facets beat flat hashtags once a site holds more than one kind of media.

Flat tags collapse under mixed media. #travel returns forty photographs, three essays, and a project, with no way to ask for just one.

Namespaced facets fix that: place:winnipeg is a place, medium:digital is a format, status:seedling is a maturity. Each facet browses independently, and each value spans every collection.