METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORING AND RETRIEVING TAGS

摘要

The present invention provides a method and system for storing and retrieving tags. Each tag is associated with a resource, upon a user's request. A tagging GUI is displayed which presents the available tags for one particular resource and/or a tag cloud GUI is displayed which presents tags for more than one resource. The tagging GUI allows to assign new tags to single resources. The tag cloud GUI enables users to search for resources which have been assigned certain tags. In the tag cloud GUI the relevancy of each single tag is visually reflected by its weighting factor which is determined by the frequency of occurrence. The method is characterized by the further steps: determining a quantitative weighting factor for each single tag by invoking a quantitative -engine, and/or determining a reputation weighting factor for each single tag by invoking a reputation-engine, and/or determining a context weighing factor for each single tag by invoking of a context-engine, determining a expiry weighting factor for each single tag by invoking a expiry-engine, and/or determining a overall weighting factor for each of said single tag by calculating the average of all the weighting factors, and visually reflecting the relevance of each single tag in the tag cloud based on said determined overall weighting factor.