Hierarchical tags with community-based ratings

摘要

A method for generating and maintaining hierarchical tags with community-based ratings is provided. Tags for media streams are organized into a hierarchical format. Users may select tags from the hierarchical tag database that describes a particular multimedia content. If the user is unable to locate a desired tag, the user may submit a new tag. Upon submission of the new tag, a librarian approves the tag before storing and placing the tag in the hierarchical tag database. Users are also able to rate the quality of the association between the tag and the multimedia content. If a tag is rated low, the tag may be removed from the hierarchical tag database. If the tag is rated highly, display of the tag in a list of tags becomes more prominent.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving, at a server, from a plurality of users, description labels indicating aspects of multimedia content items; storing tag associations between the description labels and the multimedia content items; storing user associations between the tag associations and users from whom the tag associations were received; receiving a request to view tag associations that were received from a particular user, indicating the identity of the particular user; based on the tag associations, generating a display comprising one or more description labels received from the particular user, and a plurality of the multimedia content items in association with which the one or more description labels were received from the particular user, each particular content item in the plurality of the multimedia content items associated with at least a particular description label of the one or more description labels that were received from the particular user; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.