How-To-Tag PEG Access TV?

As I was searching for examples of access centers using blogs, podcasts, and other participatory web tools, I stumbled upon a great conversation happening around issues of folksonomy and PEG access TV. I first found WCCA TV’s Tech Blog post titled “PEG, tags and RSS“. In it, Felicia Sullivan poses a question about how access centers should organize all the “stuff” they’re publishing on the web so other people can find it:

“I wonder if we in the community media world could start using a mutually agreed upon tag for the work we do in the socially networked world. It would help to pull together the growing number of us using these tools.”

In a reply in the comment section, Mauro writes:

“I have been involved with Pubic Access for twenty years. Here what I see it as:
Public Access TV, P.E.G , community access, community media center, free speech television, participatory media, democratic media, independent media, educational TV, information TV, community media clearinghouse”

Next, I found a post that Jason Crow wrote over on PEGSpace titled “Tagging Conventions“:

“Felicia started the conversation about tagging conventions on the ACM listserv. I am interested in if anyone wants come up with some general guidelines. Once we agreed upon them, I we could send it out as a flyer and start creating RSS feeds based on them.”

There are some great suggestions offered in the comment section about how access centers might begin thinking about how to tag their web content. Jacob Redding recommended that access centers focus on keeping their tags simple:

I think that locative information is going to be next inline on the web anyhow so people will not only be able to enter a tag but also click a point on a map to place where the video/photo/blog/whatever is from . . . My point is that the regional and State tags will then be obsolete.”

I left a comment wondering if the suggested “pegtv” had become an agreed upon tag? It seemed that it had, so I have decided to start using the “pegtv” tag here, as well.

I’ve also started a new page on the wiki titled “Taxonomy and Folksonomy” to explore this topic further.