Here’s how I see it, building upon the previous PEG Space discussion found here: http://pegspace.org/forum/tagging_conventions

Ideally, (if I am understanding correctly) I would think that a PEG access center would want to do both:

1. “inside out” – PEG access centers would create a tag specifically for their access center. For example CCTV in Cambridge would use “cctvcambridge”

2. “outside in” – all PEG access Centers might also tag their videos with “pegtv”.

This way there would be the option to have both “show” pages in Democracy, blip.tv (where ever) and then a PEG access TV wide tag = pegtv for an aggregator to pick up all access videos.

See also the discussion at WCCATV here: http://www.wccatv.com/node/926

“Inside Out” would be an RSS feed that came directly off of one user account in a program like Blip.tv and then that is fed into Democracy. This works well because this can coordinate content with digital server playback on a TV channel. Also, it provides some moderation.

“Outside In” would be using an agreed upon tag by the community in order to generate the feed for Democracy. Then both the station and other users could use Blip, Revver, You Tube or whatever and the use of a single tag would generate the community feed. This is more collaborative, provides less ability to moderate and presents some challenges for transferring the content from the feed to the cable channel.

I am sure there are lots of variations, too.