All of your concerns are valid, and as I said in the post, it is just one more attempt of a number along the way. If faculty and students can agree upom a unique tag for each of their courses, then that would be a start. It may prove problematic, and I’m sure there may be semantic tools that can do this better (if not now, then eventually), but I am thinking more specifically about helping faculty and students see the potential for course aggregation and an easy solution like this (if the agreed upon rules are followed) shopuld be thought of as the end (and I apologize if my post suggests thgat) but more as a compelling example of the things to come with aggregation, syndication, and the distributed network.

I hope it works, I really do, but I’ve talked about the above issues many times, and I hope that we get lucky enough for the tags not to collide.

When it looks at the tags, is it case insensitive? That’s just one of many tricky parts to manage. Notice that we weren’t able to get that straight for us just about faculty academy–at one point we said lowercase, then it was published as uppercase.

Though I didn’t do anything but spend $50 of UMW’s money. But perhaps we’ll use the occasion to celebrate over a beer some time soon